# Kevin Kuehler > Senior Software Engineer at Category Labs Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinkuehler ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Category Labs Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Illumina Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Diego, California, United States High performance, hardware accelerated processing of large NGS datasets. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Brave Software Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Programming browsers. ### DevOps Intern @ Brave Software Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 During my internship, I built out Brave's monitoring stack. I deployed Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana on AWS and ensured the nodes were highly available. I developed an alert routing solution that fit Brave's scale. During my time at Brave, the monitoring system detected every incident that occured, allowing the DevOps team to react quickly and minimize downtime. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Viasat Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Carlsbad, CA Code Translation: Wrote a compiler backend for omiidl to convert IDL to C++11 code. Continuous Integration: Configured Jenkins to automatically run and enforce unit tests. Integrated this workflow into internal GitHub enterprise. Impact: Saved hours of engineering time by automating the arduous process of manually converting IDL to C++11. Spent the last part of the internship integrating the generated C++ files in to the Viasat Handheld Radio codebase. ### Programmer @ VMRacks - HIPAA Web Hosting Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater San Diego Area Front and back end developer for severs running Linux. I handle back-end scripts that centralize data gathered from hundred of servers including, but not limited to, virus detections, file statuses, server states, and DDoS attacks. I design and manage the relational databases where the aforementioned information is stored, and design intuitive front-end interfaces in that allows for system administrators to easily decipher and manage the data accordingly. Responsibilities: - Comfortable working in various Fedora- and Debian-based Linux distributions - Writing back-end scripts in Bash, Perl, Python, and PHP - Designing and managing MySQL Databases - Setting up and working with HTTP servers running Apache - Using model-view-controller frameworks such as CakePHP and Peewee to manage web backend - Designing Web front-end interfaces in HTML, Javascript, and CSS - Working with version control (Mercurial, Git) - Working on team projects that require coordination between other programmers and system administrators ### Academic Tutor @ Palomar College Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | 1140 W Mission Rd, San Marcos, CA 92069 Tutor various subjects at the Palomar College STAR Tutoring Center. I primarily assist students in their C, C++, Java, Data Structures, and x86 Assembly Language courses. I also tutor Mathematics up to Calculus III and GE level English. ### Software Engineer @ XBand Sports Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater San Diego Area XBand Sports Technology Paid Internship Successfully developed a firmware update program (in Java) for multiple Android devices using Bluetooth technology. Specifications required the sharing of new and large firmware files between Android devices (4.0+) devices and XBand Technology device using Bluetooth high speed technology (the Version 3.0 + HS enhancement to the Bluetooth Core Specification); using this app and the secondary radio that was designed into the consumer device dramatically saves the time associated with the manual approach while expanding future build opportunities. Code will be integrated into the companies main application. A standalone version is being used for updating multiple units in warehouse prior to shipment to end users. Responsibilities: - Discovered and characterized protocol and handshaking methods in secondary device including dropouts making that ensure a reliable connection. - Successfully transfer and install new and large firmware files. - Utilized multithreading and concurrency in Java - Developed friendly GUI for Android devices using Android Studio including radio discovery and synchronization. ## Education ### Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ### High School Diploma Del Norte High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevin-kuehler - Website: https://kevinkuehler.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/kevinkuehler JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kevinkuehler/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22