Valentin Kao
Software Engineer at valentinkao.com
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolValentin Kao is a pragmatic software engineer with 9 years of experience building cost-effective, production-ready backends and cloud architectures for startups and IoT platforms. An AWS Certified Solutions Architect, he specializes in serverless-first designs (Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge) while knowing when to move to containers (ECS) for performance and cost control. He’s shipped large-scale IoT systems and multi-tenant APIs, led engineering teams to ISO 27001 certification, and cut AWS costs dramatically through observability and architectural audits. Recently he’s acted as the technical bridge for GenAI products—integrating OpenAI/Bedrock, LiveKit and ElevenLabs into realtime workflows without bankrupting the business. Equally comfortable in TypeScript/NestJS, Python/FastAPI and React/Next, he pairs hands-on implementation with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK, SAM) to avoid future rewrites. Based in Hong Kong, he blends startup velocity with disciplined platform thinking and a habit of designing for observability and predictable costs.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechMaster's Degree, Entrepreneurship and Project Management, Master's Degree, Entrepreneurship and Project Management at Université de Haute-Alsace Mulhouse-ColmarMaster in Advanced Computing, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Master in Advanced Computing, Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University
English, Chinese, teochew (chinese dialect), French, Spanish, Khmer
Github Skills (27)
javascript10
react-native10
android10
frontend10
react10
mbaas9
ios9
framework79
microfrontend9
typescript9
expo9
mobile9
react-navigation9
weex9
web-framework8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Edai/vive-unity3d-headcross
Mar 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
mugbubule/aniML
May 2018 - Jun 2018
It's a prank bro
Contributions:28 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
prank
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