Kevin Zhang
Agent Engineer at Sierra
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Zhang is an experienced software engineer with 11 years focused on cloud-native systems and authentication, currently building agent technologies at Sierra after senior engineering work at Confluent. He shipped OAuth and authentication improvements for Confluent Cloud and previously developed backup and storage-oriented tooling for the Schema Registry, reflecting strength in secure, production-grade infrastructure. His background includes internships across Google, Snap, Square, and mobile and backend roles, giving him a broad stack perspective from Android apps to distributed systems. A Waterloo CS alumnus now based in New York, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a history of mentoring and product-minded feature delivery—he even taught and organized youth chess programs early on, hinting at long-standing coaching and analytical instincts.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
National University of SingaporeHigh School, High School at Lisgar Collegiate InstituteBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (21)
json10
avro10
confluent10
kafka-connect10
schema-validation10
json-schema10
kafka10
rest-api10
schema10
protobuf10
java9
scala9
kafka-consumer9
apache-kafka9
apache8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kzzhang/Chess-Scout
Sep 2017 - Aug 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years
jia-kevin/studybuddy
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 13 pushes in 1 day
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