Summary
Leon Kwan is a Head of Engineering with six years of experience building scalable web and AI tooling across startups and large cloud platforms. He progressed from full-stack and internship roles into Amazon SDE work focused on LLMs and GenAI tooling serving thousands of engineers before taking an engineering leadership role at Khorium. Comfortable across Node.js, Java, AWS, OpenSearch and modern web stacks, he has delivered production search integrations, pagination guarantees, and workforce BI features that bridged data and UX. A University of Florida CS graduate and former TA, he pairs hands-on implementation skills with mentorship and cross-functional collaboration. Outside product work he’s built social-impact projects (award-winning hackathon app) and tooling to synchronize DynamoDB and OpenSearch at scale—demonstrating attention to both user outcomes and data integrity. Based in Mountain View, he blends rapid prototyping instincts with production engineering rigor.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering