Kristen Kwong
Senior Software Engineer - Siri Home Devices at Apple
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristen Kwong is a Senior Software Engineer at Apple with nine years of experience building intelligent in-home Siri experiences and client frameworks. A UBC Computer Science graduate and former teaching assistant, she blends strong academic foundations with practical systems work across voice, performance, and automation. At Apple she has progressed from intern roles to senior engineering, shipping features and infrastructure for Siri on home devices and relocating to scale impact across offices. Her background includes full-stack tooling—REST APIs, AngularJS front-ends, Python automation, and data analysis—and hands-on hardware test tooling from earlier roles. She co-founded UBCHacks and has led local hack communities, signaling a long-standing commitment to developer education and grassroots coordination. Known for turning data and automation into actionable product improvements, she brings both thoughtful engineering and community-driven leadership to consumer AI experiences.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English
Github Skills (15)
hiphop10
phonetics9
origami8
feature-extraction8
query-language8
hyphenation7
image-processing7
jekyll7
data-processing6
ctf2
tld1
creative-commons1
whois1
lists1
uri1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kristenkwong/hiphop-lang
Nov 2019 - Apr 2021
HIPHOP (Handy Image Processing for Highly Over-caffeinated Programmers), a domain specific language for image processing.
Contributions:1 review, 29 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 5 months
hiphopdataminingfeature-extractionorigamihyphenation
kristenkwong/website-2019
Mar 2017 - Mar 2020
Personal website, built with Jekyll.
Contributions:142 commits, 7 PRs, 124 pushes in 3 years
jekyll
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