Kyle Kung
Software Engineer at Square
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Kung is a software engineer based in Vancouver with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across cloud and distributed environments. He has moved from hands-on internships into full engineering roles at AWS and currently Square, contributing to serverless architectures, microservices, performance and chaos testing frameworks, and load-balancing features. Kyle combines strong backend design (C++, Java/Spring, DynamoDB, CloudFormation) with frontend work (React/Redux) and a track record of reducing test runtimes and improving system stability. His background includes analytics and data work at Mozilla and practical DevOps practices from designing full CI/CD pipelines for payments and fraud systems. A high academic achiever (B.Eng. 3.89/4.0, University of Ottawa) who led student engineering groups, he brings both technical depth and a history of mentoring and organizing community events. Notably, he often focuses on building tooling and frameworks that make complex systems more testable and resilient.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering, 3.89 / 4.0, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering, 3.89 / 4.0 at University of Ottawa
Github Skills (19)
recipe9
cookbook8
react6
backend5
psql5
python5
javascript5
nodejs4
decode3
machine-learning2
exploratory2
scikit2
exploratory-data-analysis1
chrome-extension1
docker1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
BweakfastClub/Foodora
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
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Contributions:158 commits, 75 PRs, 110 pushes in 10 months
reactrecipescookbookpythonrecipe
koosoku/Simple-Chat
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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