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 (33)
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machine-learning10
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computer-vision10
azure10
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apache9
microsoft9
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java9
microsoft-azure9
deep-learning9
azure-machine-learning8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hukun01/Runner-Stats
Dec 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:130 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
hukun01/LeetCode
Feb 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:74 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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