Kevin Kao
Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKevin Kao is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and tech lead at LinkedIn with 11 years of experience building distributed backend, search, and ML infrastructure for LinkedIn Jobs. He drives technical vision across multiple teams, leads cross-org initiatives and engineering teams of 10+, and is known for up-leveling senior ICs while frequently wearing de facto manager and PM hats. His work includes building one of LinkedIn’s largest search clusters serving 100M+ requests/day, a real-time Beam+Pinot feature generation system, and an ML model validation platform that protects production clusters. Berkeley‑educated and Bay Area–based, he also consults for ML teams and has been shipping impactful ML systems since his intern days—his early search snippets model produced a +10% lift in business metrics.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyPiedmont Hills High School
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Github Skills (41)
rest-api8
api8
discovery8
rest8
jax-rs8
json8
asynchronous8
restful-api7
swagger7
restful7
scalable7
architectures6
semantics4
document-processing4
classification3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kk415kk/moocRP
Mar 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:290 commits, 87 pushes, 3 comments in 1 year 4 months
kk415kk/kk415kk.github.io
Aug 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:22 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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