Peter Kong
Author at Freelance
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Kong is an experienced software engineer and author based in Miami with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience spanning NLP, backend systems, devops, and creative writing. He currently splits his time between senior engineering work at Quill.org, freelance privacy- and security-focused engineering and tech writing, and authoring fiction, most recently releasing "Snowbound - A Pressland Adventure." His background includes building large-scale web platforms at Bloomberg and research-grade distributed analytics for adaptive intrusion detection at UPenn, reflecting strong systems and security instincts. Trained in computer science with a data science certificate and an MS in engineering, he blends applied machine learning interests with practical production engineering. Notably, he pairs technical depth with storytelling—publishing novels and maintaining a tech-and-writing blog—bringing rare communication skills to technical products.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Completion Data Science, Certificate of Completion Data Science at General AssemblyBA Computer Science English Chinese, BA Computer Science English Chinese at Georgetown UniversityLanguage Study Chinese, Language Study Chinese at Columbia UniversityMaster of Science in Engineering Computer & Information Science, Master of Science in Engineering Computer & Information Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (44)
javascript10
postgresql10
data-collection10
learning-management-system10
operation10
snowflake10
mysql10
python10
quill10
rails10
java10
ruby10
mono10
mssql10
pipeline10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
happythenewsad/jekyll_pkcom
Dec 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:8 pushes in 2 years 4 months
happythenewsad/style_eval
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:20 pushes in 3 months
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