Kevin Chen
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKevin Chen is a full-stack software engineer with five years of hands-on experience building fast, reliable systems across frontend, backend, and automation. Comfortable in React, TypeScript, Go, and Python, he focuses on performance optimization and infrastructure that reduces manual toil. His internships at Glean, Opal Security, Coalition, Faire, and Super.com show a pattern of tackling high-impact problems in ML infrastructure, security, cyber experience, search, and growth. A University of Waterloo CS student who spent an exchange at The University of Hong Kong, he brings both rigorous academics and diverse real-world product experience. Kevin often gravitates toward projects where subtle optimizations unlock large user or developer productivity gains. Based in Waterloo, he combines cross-functional collaboration with a pragmatic, metric-driven approach to shipping reliable software.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese
Github Skills (16)
hardware9
csc9
data-science8
ai7
qbcore-framework7
cycle7
github7
sun6
shiny6
solar-car6
backend5
blueprint5
pii4
database4
optimization4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kevinchen220/Obsidian-Notes
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
kevinchen220/ICS4U0
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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