# Kavin Y.

> Software Engineer @ Zip

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kaviny

Recruiters: I'm currently NOT looking for new opportunities. All emails and linkedin chats are ignored.

Please don't send unsolicited emails to my work email. You'll get blocked.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Zip
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, CA
Doing more migrations but in a serious way because customers pay us

Core Infra Team

### Staff Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, CA
Led a team to do projects (that I liked)

Privacy Foundation Team

### Senior Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, CA
Built a thrift service and improved reliability (tail latency still bad)

Privacy and Security Team

### Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park, CA
Migrated some data from Postgres to TAO (saved the company some money at the cost of losing ACID)

Core Infra Team

### Course Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
CS221

### SDE Intern @ Amazon Web Services
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
EC2 Spot

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Nanjing University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
NJU iSE Lab


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science
Stanford University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Computer Software Engineering
Nanjing University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kavinyao
- Website: http://kavinyao.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-23