Vera Kong
Senior Software Engineer I at HubSpot
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolVera Kong is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack, production-grade systems, currently working at HubSpot in New York. She has progressed through multiple HubSpot roles—from co-op to senior engineer—contributing to identity, user and asset management, and internal tooling that improved platform adoption and streamlined feature rollouts. Vera blends backend engineering (REST APIs, Kafka, SQS, SQL) with front-end work in React and ApolloClient, and has a track record of improving query performance and integrating automation like Slack alerts. Her background includes developer leadership and recruiting at Northeastern’s Sandbox and hands-on product builds connecting users through MentorMatch, reflecting both technical depth and user-centered product thinking. She holds a dual degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Northeastern and often brings process-driven, data-informed approaches to reducing friction in complex release workflows.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityHunter CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Manhattan/Hunter Science High School
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (21)
webapp8
scrape6
netbox4
sandbox4
twitter4
water4
scraper4
python4
react4
discourse3
nextjs3
javascript3
audit3
scheduler3
assistive-technology3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sandboxnu/boba-buddies
Oct 2021 - Feb 2023
Sandbox's virtual water cooler conversation app.
Contributions:30 reviews, 12 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 4 months
discourseconversationsandboxcockpitcooler
VKong6019/ds3000-F20
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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