Kevin Fu
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Endorsed
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Spectator Sports
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CTO & Co-Founder
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Aug 2023 - Present
San Francisco Bay Area Read AI-written summaries instead of resumes. We help companies screen job applicants faster and smarter with concise AI-written summaries, organized un-biased in order of best fit for the job, so you can advance top applicants faster. Founded by LinkedIn, Apple, and Y Combinator alums. Backed by Joe Montana, Orange Fund, the Vercel AI Accelerator, and future of work angels.
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LinkedIn
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineering Manager
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Jun 2021 - Aug 2023
Mountain View, California, United States • Led team of 10 client (iOS, Android, Web) and backend engineers to maintain & iterate on LinkedIn Search Verticals and UX Platform components • Led the experimentation, iterations, and revamp of the LinkedIn Content ("Posts") Vertical experience to larger, more engaging content cards • Led the Dash migration and pre-Dash cleanup for all primary LinkedIn Search API endpoints across 20+ clients & use cases • Led iterations on the Services Search vertical including ratings & reviews… Show more • Led team of 10 client (iOS, Android, Web) and backend engineers to maintain & iterate on LinkedIn Search Verticals and UX Platform components • Led the experimentation, iterations, and revamp of the LinkedIn Content ("Posts") Vertical experience to larger, more engaging content cards • Led the Dash migration and pre-Dash cleanup for all primary LinkedIn Search API endpoints across 20+ clients & use cases • Led iterations on the Services Search vertical including ratings & reviews, message response time, provided services, and more
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Staff Software Engineer
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Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
Mountain View, California, United States • Contributed to the creation of LinkedIn's new privacy-compliant data platform DataRealm built using GraphQL • Onboarded and migrated Profile and Rich Media services onto the DataRealm platform • Contributed to the migration of SlideShare from LinkedIn's internal stack to AWS for the SlideShare to Scribd acquisition • Migrated the Ruby on Rails SlideShare app to Docker containers deployed on AWS
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Senior Software Engineer
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Nov 2017 - Apr 2020
San Francisco Bay Area • Contributed to the creation of LinkedIn's new privacy-compliant data platform DataRealm built using GraphQL • Migrated 250 million member profile and background photos to comply with GDPR regulations, enhancing member data protection and privacy • Led initiative for GDPR related client migration involving hundreds of clients/upstream services regarding member photos involving over 2,000 tickets • Designed and implemented a flexible and easy to use self-service data migration… Show more • Contributed to the creation of LinkedIn's new privacy-compliant data platform DataRealm built using GraphQL • Migrated 250 million member profile and background photos to comply with GDPR regulations, enhancing member data protection and privacy • Led initiative for GDPR related client migration involving hundreds of clients/upstream services regarding member photos involving over 2,000 tickets • Designed and implemented a flexible and easy to use self-service data migration platform, reducing engineering effort to one day for any data fix or data migration of any LinkedIn data store • Co-led a company wide client migration effort across hundreds of client services for optimizing request latencies for retrieving member profiles, settings, and accounts
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Software Engineer
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Aug 2016 - Nov 2017
San Francisco Bay Area • Developed upon LinkedIn’s RESTful service layer for member account, profile, settings, and privacy settings data • Designed LinkedIn's next-generation platform for creating, managing, and serving all user settings and privacy settings across the company • Increased service scalability and performance by implementing dynamic downstream call optimizations based upon input request patterns, resulting in a 15% reduction in latency and 100k QPS decrease in downstream calls • Worked on… Show more • Developed upon LinkedIn’s RESTful service layer for member account, profile, settings, and privacy settings data • Designed LinkedIn's next-generation platform for creating, managing, and serving all user settings and privacy settings across the company • Increased service scalability and performance by implementing dynamic downstream call optimizations based upon input request patterns, resulting in a 15% reduction in latency and 100k QPS decrease in downstream calls • Worked on LinkedIn’s backend services for over 500 million members handling over 500,000 queries per second • Improved the member data quality and privacy for hundreds of millions of members through data fixes and migrations, enhancing member experiences across multiple LinkedIn platforms • Refined and automated commit to deployment service pipelines decreasing release time from 12 to 3 hours and increasing frequency from weekly to thrice daily, significantly improving iterability and reliability
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Tofu
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United States
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Financial Services
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Chief Executive Officer & Chief Technical Officer
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Apr 2021 - Mar 2022
Sunnyvale, California, United States • Developed the MVP Backend-as-a-Service infrastructure to support the first production client (iOS App - Trend Trade) • Implemented BaaS service infra using Node, Typescript, AWS, Terraform, MongoDB, GraphQL, and Docker • Created reusable CI/CD pipeline using Github Workflows, Jest, and configurable environment variables • Developed Github repo reusable templates for generating new backends with devOps pipelines
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SatoshiTax
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United States
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Accounting
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Co-Founder
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Jan 2018 - May 2018
San Francisco Bay Area • Built full stack Node.js application for allowing cryptocurrency traders to easily determine their capital gains tax liability in a few simple steps • Developed automatic continuous integration system using CircleCI and Git for managing commit pipelines, automated testing, and deploying to staging and production environments • Implemented authentication system for managing user state, registration information, securing user accounts, and other login integrations (Google, Coinbase… Show more • Built full stack Node.js application for allowing cryptocurrency traders to easily determine their capital gains tax liability in a few simple steps • Developed automatic continuous integration system using CircleCI and Git for managing commit pipelines, automated testing, and deploying to staging and production environments • Implemented authentication system for managing user state, registration information, securing user accounts, and other login integrations (Google, Coinbase, etc.) • Designed system using PostgreSQL for handling cryptocurrency exchanges, fiat & crypto currencies, user trades, and user account information • Produced tax minimization algorithms for reducing user capital gains tax liability Show less
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Self-Employed
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Real Estate
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1 - 100 Employee
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Freelance Software Developer
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Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
• Serving clients looking for a software developer or consultant in web development, software engineering, or back-end service development • Specializing in the following languages/frameworks: Python, Java, Node.js, and Javascript
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Entrée
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India
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Retail Furniture and Home Furnishings
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder
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Dec 2015 - Aug 2016
Austin, TX • Led a team of developers in building a bot to allow customers to order ahead at food trucks through FB Messenger • Implemented backend code using Node.js and MongoDB for handling orders and customer/producer information • Integrated Braintree and Slack into the bot platform for handling credit card transactions and notifications • Created developer tooling using AWS, CircleCI, and Bash scripts for improving testing and code robustness
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Software Engineering Intern
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May 2015 - Aug 2015
Mountain View, California • Wrote Python and Node.js tools for improving the development process for the Identity Backend team • Wrote Java code, unit tests, and integration tests for RESTLI API endpoints for third party application use • Migrated legacy code and writing unit tests for mobile middle tier and front end using Node.js • Worked on LinkedIn’s next generation RESTful service layer for member accounts, profiles, and settings data
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Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder
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Aug 2014 - Aug 2015
Austin, TX • Organized specific technologies and created fully functional website to increase company productivity and sales • Wrote Python scripts using PDFMiner, Dropbox API, and GroupMe API to optimize and automate existing systems • Developed/implemented strategies for building the company and generating approximately $2500 in revenue
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Microcontrollers Intern
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May 2014 - Aug 2014
Austin, TX • Tested the Kinetis Bootloader for microcontroller boards such as the Freedom K64F and KL25Z in C and C++ • Wrote and debugged Python scripts for protocol testing and corrupt data testing • Documented results and provided detailed explanations of over 200 test cases across all microcontroller peripherals • Automated testing framework using Bamboo and an integrated JUnit Parser for test case history
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Various Locations
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Health, Wellness & Fitness
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1 - 100 Employee
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Private Mathematics Tutor
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Mar 2011 - May 2014
• Tutored middle school and high school students • Tutored ACT, SAT, and general math courses • Developed own unique curriculum and teaching style
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Plano SAT Masters
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United States
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Mathematics Teacher
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Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
• Taught high school mathematics courses, SAT/ACT, and Calculus BC
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Education
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The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering (Honors) -
The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science -
Plano West Senior High School