Kun Hu
Senior Software Engineer at Stripe
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKun Hu is a senior backend engineer with 12 years of experience building high-throughput, distributed systems for cloud and advertising platforms. He has driven performance at scale—boosting Amazon Ad Server bid processing by 400%—and automated global datacenter fulfillment at Microsoft using microservices and discrete optimization with Gurobi. Now at Stripe, he applies his expertise in C#, Java, and Python to design clean, object-oriented architectures that solve complex operational and cost trade-offs. Comfortable across the stack from algorithmic optimization to production deployment, he combines practical engineering with a strong foundation in distributed computing. Based in Bellevue, WA, he blends academic training from UC Irvine and Wuhan University with hands-on experience shipping million-dollar rack scheduling and cloud capacity systems. An engineer who favors measurable impact, he seeks problems where performance, reliability, and efficiency intersect.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Wuhan UniversityUniversity of California, Irvine
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (24)
storm10
notebook10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
computer-vision10
iphone-app10
pytorch9
microsoft-azure9
tensorflow9
streaming9
apache8
apache-storm8
tuple8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hukun01/Runner-Stats
Dec 2013 - May 2015
#I have stopped updating this app, feel free to continue it on your own. Runner Stats is an iPhone app, which helps you record the data of every run, including the duration, distance you covered, your instantaneous speed, your average speed, and the route on the map.
Contributions:130 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
iphone-app
hukun01/LeetCode
Feb 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:74 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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