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Kevin Pang

@kevinpang

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in scalable systems, distributed architectures, and real-time data pipelines.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek engineering roles building scalable, real-time backend and data systems at companies that value reliability, collaboration with Data Science, and mentorship opportunities.

I am a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years building and optimizing scalable, high-performance software systems across backend, frontend, and data pipelines.

I have led architecture-to-production projects at scale, implementing microservices, event-driven architectures with Kafka, and high-throughput streaming pipelines on AWS.

My work has delivered measurable results: reducing listing publish latency by 60%, building real-time pricing and personalization systems, and improving API performance and database throughput through targeted optimizations.

I collaborate closely with Product and Data Science, mentor engineers on distributed systems and best practices, and prioritize observability, CI/CD, and reliable rollouts to support millions of users.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Airbnb

Nov 2018 - Present (7 years 4 months)

Built and maintained scalable microservices and real-time pipelines for hotel inventory, dynamic pricing, and listing personalization, reducing listing publish latency by 60% and improving recommendation relevance across millions of users.

Java Kotlin Spring Boot Kafka AWS Redis PostgreSQL gRPC Python

Software Engineer

Course Hero

Nov 2015 - Oct 2018 (2 years 11 months)

Developed backend services and document processing pipelines to support large-scale user-generated content, improving system reliability and search relevance through async workflows and Elasticsearch integration.

Python Django AWS S3 Celery Elasticsearch React PostgreSQL

Software Developer

Vessel Science

Sep 2014 - Oct 2015 (1 year 1 month)

Built full-stack features and data processing jobs for scientific dataset management, improving API responsiveness and enabling collaborative experiment tracking with responsive React dashboards.

React JavaScript API Design PostgreSQL Background Jobs Docker WordPress Testing

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Brown University

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

2010 - 2014

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science completed at Brown University, focusing on software engineering foundations and systems from 2010 to 2014.