Summary
Kevin Zhou is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11 years of experience and over 7 years specializing in programmatic advertising, RTB systems, and ad formats across native, display, and video. Currently Sr. Manager at Beeswax after leading and scaling an 11-engineer team at TripleLift, he combines deep protocol-level expertise (OpenRTB, VAST, MRAID, AdCom) with hands-on work building high-throughput ad platforms that processed trillions of requests daily. Kevin excels at turning auction-flow telemetry into product and business improvements—driving metrics like win rate, viewability, and margin through A/B experimentation and orchestration of cross-team solutions. He pairs a full-stack engineering mindset with product instincts from prior game and video-platform work, and has a track record of shipping tooling (ad previewing, compliant consent features) that bridges engineering, ops, and revenue. Based in New York, he’s equally passionate about performance, data storytelling, and mentoring engineers to move fast while maintaining operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics at New York University
Ruby Ruby on Rails JavaScript SQL HTML/CSS Sinatra, Ruby Ruby on Rails JavaScript SQL HTML/CSS Sinatra at Dev Bootcamp
Stuyvesant High School
Japanese, Chinese, English