Kevin Tang
Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Tang is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with seven years of experience building low-latency, performance-oriented systems at companies including Bloomberg, Amazon, Jane Street-adjacent work, and Facebook. A UC Berkeley double-major in Computer Science and Astrophysics, he blends deep systems and algorithmic skills with domain knowledge in space technology from projects at STAC, JPL, and Caltech. He has shipped telemetry and flight-computer software in C for high-altitude balloon missions, optimized mission scheduling algorithms, and developed tooling for observatory data pipelines and CNN-based supernova classification. Known for squeezing latency out of critical paths, Kevin pairs backend performance expertise with practical frontend and automation experience (Angular/React, Docker, Jenkins). He thrives at the intersection of space and software, turning scientific requirements into production-ready, testable systems.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Astrophysics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Astrophysics at University of California, BerkeleyLa Canada High School
Chinese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (117)
ripgrep10
libgit210
autocomplete10
language-server-protocol10
vim-plugin10
grep10
ruby10
vim10
lua10
directories10
linter10
command-line-tool10
ack10
nvim10
edtech10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Svetlitski/jemalloc
Apr 2023 - Aug 2023
Contributions:15 PRs, 99 pushes, 99 branches in 3 months
Svetlitski/flambda-backend
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:87 pushes, 14 branches in 6 months
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