# Kai Seward > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kaiseward Hi there! I'm a software engineer based in San Francisco! I really like fixing bugs and building things that help people connect to, understand, and appreciate the world they live in. I am especially interested in technology that helps people learn about the natural world and other cultures. because when we learn about the natural world we are driven to protect it, and when we learn about other cultures we can recognize our biases and become better people. I am also a fast learner and really enjoy learning new technologies to solve problems! My first introduction to programming was in college where I taught myself Python in a week in order to take a course in Number Theory. I would later land a non-technical role on Facebook's (now Meta!) Search team where I stepped up and taught myself PHP / Hack, SQL, Python, and other technologies in order to contribute to my team's codebase. Over time my role evolved into a hybrid engineering / ops position where I got to do a little bit of everything, but I was always happiest when writing code and solving hard problems. If you were curious, in my current profile picture, I am seated on the crater rim of Mount St. Helens and my hair is a disaster after climbing 4500 feet. You can see Mount Rainier on the right and steam rising from fumaroles in the crater to the left. Have a great day! Portfolio: https://kaiseward.codes/ ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Recurve Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Search Ranking Specialist / Tool Specialist @ Facebook Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Menlo Park Built and maintained tools in PHP (Hack), JavaScript, and ReactJS used by a large contingent workforce (in-house and crowdsourced) to provide millions of points of relevance and classification data daily to Facebook’s product teams including those focused on search ranking, news, places, videos, trending topics, NLP, and others. Designed and built internal tools with PHP and SQL and developed metrics for internal teams and vendors to track data quality including visualizers for accuracy, inter-rater reliability, confusion matrices, precision / recall, and disagreements. Collaborated with a team of software engineers as a member of a 24/7 on-call rotation; including winning a “fix of the month” award for quickly spinning up a framework to prevent user privacy policy violations in our human rating platform. Designed and implemented a logging and reporting system based on an internal logging API, a Python and Apache Hive-based ETL pipeline, and a PHP-based vendor-facing tool to automate time-tracking and billing for contingent workers saving millions of dollars in lost productivity arising from inaccurate/exaggerated time reports and slow task processing. Managed and developed training programs for a team of 40+ onsite contingent workers, overseeing cross-functional relationships with vendors and other teams as our rating workforce scaled from around 30 onsite workers to 2000+ human raters globally. ### Search Ranking Analyst @ Facebook Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Menlo Park ## Education ### Full Stack Software Engineering App Academy ### Virginia Tech ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mathematics Virginia Tech ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics Virginia Tech ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kai-seward --- Source: https://flows.cv/kaiseward JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kaiseward/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05