About Me

Hi there, I'm Kevin. I'm a Software Engineer at Squarespace in NYC.

I graduated from Purdue University in May 2019 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with a concentration in Software Engineering (GPA: 3.75/4). My primary interest is in back end software engineering. A secondary topic that fascinates me is data analytics.

Work Experience

Squarespace

Software Engineer
6/2019 - Present — NYC
  • Built a distributed, fault-tolerant, and horizontally scalable data deduplication Java microservice capable of processing >25,000 events/second in collaboration with a data engineering team; service leveraged Kafka transactions and partitions to shard incoming events into the microservice hosted on Kubernetes
  • Reduced processing times by 90% for certain critical operations in Praetor (an internal Go gRPC microservice for A/B testing and feature flagging) while improving reliability and safety; evangelized Praetor to other teams and orgs within the company
  • Built a blackbox monitor in Go to measure the reliability and responsiveness of Praetor and to output metrics to Prometheus/Grafana with new alerting functionality
  • Held primary responsibility for monitoring and responding to issues arising in production for the company's main traffic-serving system (along with all systems/services owned by my team) during on-call shifts; also provided support for other engineers

Capital One

Software Engineering Intern
Summer 2018 — McLean, VA
  • iOS developer in consumer banking business
  • Prototyped an iOS app in Swift that interfaces with internal APIs/microservices
  • Sourced and utilized an open source library for interacting with a Go server via WebSockets

Clarity Partners

Associate Software Engineer Intern
Summer 2017 — Chicago, IL
  • Developer on the Chicago Police Department team using C# with ASP.NET MVC and Oracle SQL
  • Rewrote multiple data warehouses search applications (originally in Visual Basic) using ASP.NET MVC
  • Analyzed, architected, and rewrote web application (originally in Perl) for police lineups. Police lineups are a series of mugshots shown to a victim/witness of a crime wherein the victim/witness will point out a suspect. This process, if conducted fairly, is admissible evidence in court. Work includes database layer, web UI, everything in between, and a robust audit log system.

Krannert Computing Center

Student Developer
5/2016 - 4/2017 — West Lafayette, IN
  • Full stack developer on ASP.NET MVC web applications used University-wide.
  • Automated tedious and error-prone processes to achieve time savings of >90%.
  • Implemented scheduling appointment capability in a calendar utility used University-wide.

Portfolio

Fiscus

A portfolio tracking website built to fulfill the senior software engineering project requirement. Designed, architected, and built a web application using Bootstrap, Node.js, Postgres, and Redis in an agile team environment. Featured as one of the best senior projects for the Spring 2018 semester.

MarketWatch API

An unofficial Python wrapper for programmatically interacting with the stock trading game hosted on MarketWatch. Analyzed and reverse engineered the MarketWatch website to create a lean, robust, and well-documented wrapper.

Skills

Best

Go

Kubernetes

gRPC

Better

Python

SQL

Kafka

Good

Java

JavaScript/Node.js

Contact

If you have any questions or inquiries for me, please feel free to contact me at [email protected]. My phone number is available on request.