Kelvin Kou
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolKelvin Kou is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who blends a life-sciences background and research-trained analytical rigor with hands-on software development at Amazon. He enjoys untangling complex systems and building human-centered software, having moved from web tools for biological research to scalable services at a major cloud-scale employer. Kelvin’s career shows a pattern of automating repetitive work and improving quality—whether creating Jinja2-driven pipelines for field guides, a Python tool to bulk-clone JIRA issues, or shipping features as an SDE. Based in Vancouver, he pairs strong communication skills with a curiosity for science and nature, making him comfortable collaborating across research and engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Biology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Biology at The University of British Columbia
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
php10
javascript10
file-sharing10
self-hosting10
usability10
owncloud10
federation10
collaboration10
nextcloud10
open-source8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kcskou/dotfiles
Dec 2015 - Jun 2025
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch, 13 comments in 9 years 7 months
kcskou/afterlife
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:39 commits, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
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