Summary
Kevin Sprong is a Senior Backend Engineer in the Boston area with 11 years of experience building data-driven systems and machine learning-enabled services. He has delivered backend personalization at Spotify, analytics infrastructure at HubSpot, and ML-driven speech improvements for Alexa at Amazon, consistently operating at the intersection of large-scale data pipelines and production ML. Earlier roles at Akamai and MITRE show deep expertise in designing ETL workflows, monitoring/metrics, and DAG-based processing for capacity and aviation analytics, often turning terabytes of operational data into actionable systems. Kevin combines a research-minded approach from his aviation and defense work with pragmatic engineering for product teams, and he has a track record of automating complex workflows and exposing modeled data via APIs and visualizations.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer