Kevin Wen - Application Engineer

Kevin Wen

Application Engineer - II

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Kevin Wen is an Application Engineer with four years of hands-on experience building resilient, cost-efficient cloud-native applications and data integrations. Based in Toronto and raised in Philadelphia as a first-generation college student, he blends backend engineering (Java/Pulsar contributions to Apache InLong) with frontend work using Angular and Stencil.js to deliver performant, consistent user experiences. At Vanguard he drove a 75% performance improvement in report generation, helped cut application TCO by up to 50% through serverless migrations, and operationalized apps to 99.95% availability using SRE practices. He has a history of pragmatic test and tooling improvements from early roles (network and FTP test automation, SQL-query GUIs) and a knack for moving prototypes to production—evidenced by an approved generative-AI proof of concept built on Amazon Bedrock. Curious and problem-focused, he enjoys extending open-source data tooling and making complex integrations, like Pulsar sources, reliably pluggable.

4 years of coding experience

3 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Drexel University

Chinese, English

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Github Skills (9)

javas10

data-streaming10

pulsar10

java10

apache-flink9

web-framework8

app-framework8

application-framework8

data-integration8

Programming languages (2)

JavaJavaScript

Github contributions (5)

apache/inlong

Aug 2021 - Mar 2022

Apache InLong - a one-stop, full-scenario integration framework for massive data

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:31 reviews, 25 commits, 29 PRs in 7 months

Contributions summary:Kevin's primary contribution involves enhancing the Apache InLong data integration framework, specifically adding support for the Pulsar messaging system within the sorting component. Their work includes the implementation of a new `PulsarSourceFunction.java` file, which enables the framework to read data from Pulsar topics. This functionality appears to integrate Pulsar as a source for data streams, making it a more versatile integration framework. The changes demonstrate a focus on extending the framework's capabilities to support different data streaming platforms.

event-streamingstopframeworkapachebig-data

KevinWen007/incubator-inlong

Jan 2022 - Mar 2022

Apache InLong - a one-stop data streaming platform

Contributions:174 pushes, 71 branches in 2 months

data-analyticsstreaming-datastopstreamingapache

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