# Jiwan Kang

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jiwan

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Persona
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA

### Software Engineer @ Benchling
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Developed features and tools to optimize clients’ multi-tenant biotech R&D experience.

### Software Engineer @ Wish
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
Designed and implemented a data migration from scheduled scripts to a real-time streaming system using Apache Kafka and a Flink microservice.
Performed experiments on merchant advertisement bidding methods, increasing feature users by 15%.
Developed microservice features using Python, Go, GraphQL and MongoDB to handle seller promotions.
Executed Agile workflow, participating in stand-ups, demos, reviews, and retrospectives.

### Software Engineer @ Broadway Technology
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Led the project of connecting a new client to the company’s software, which involved direct communication with the client and eventually handling millions of dollars in liquidity.
Solved low latency concurrency problems involving traders and brokers using C++.

### Software Engineer @ Thomson Reuters
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Toronto, Canada Area
Applied natural language processing capabilities of Spacy and NumPy to generate potential user search queries to supplement model training data for one of the top search engines for accounting documents. 
Collaborated with research scientists to engineer new machine learning model solutions.
Automated the machine learning model creation pipeline using Python and Shell scripts, allowing for the experimentation of over 100 combinations of features during the term.
Automated the machine learning model creation pipeline using Python and Shell scripts, allowing for the experimentation of over 100 combinations of features during the term.

### Teaching Assistant (Part-time) @ University of Waterloo
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Waterloo, ON
Organized help sessions and provided 1-on-1 tutoring for first year programming students.

### Software Developer @ D2L
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Toronto, Canada Area
Built and compared results of supervised machine learning methods for authorship verification and plagiarism detection, leading to a best model achieving >90% accuracy.
Prototyped modern capabilities of natural language processing related to automatic keyphrase extraction for the purpose of efficient understanding of course/lecture content.

### Full Stack Developer @ Tulip
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Kitchener, Canada Area
Debugged and optimized features in PHP and MySQL stack, following Agile software development.

### Full Stack Developer @ Tulip
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Debugged and optimized features in PHP and MySQL stack, following Agile software development.


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jiwankang

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Last updated: 2026-04-11