# Kevin Kyyro

> Software Engineering at Temporal

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinkyyro

I want to create solutions that make the problems look simple and improve people's lives.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Design Engineer @ Temporal Technologies
Jan 2023 – Present | Raleigh, NC

### Software Engineer III @ Stripe
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Stream Infrastructure (Kafka Team)
- owned and operated Kafka for all of Stripe, maintaining 99.9999% availability
- built core components of the Kafka control plane MVP
- migrated Kafka-related services and clients from dedicated VMs to Kubernetes
- liaison for security and compute teams
- onboarded new hires and interns
- technologies: Kafka, Scala, Kubernetes, Temporal, gRPC, AWS, Python, Ruby, Terraform, Puppet, Zookeeper

### Lead Software Engineer @ Sigma Ratings, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York
- designed event-based architecture and led the full-stack development of the Terminal application
- wrote and optimized advanced SQL queries for append-only tables, text/json search, and more
- maintained and optimized ETL jobs for performance and reliability 
- managed AWS resources, monorepo build and deployment pipelines, and monitoring
- ​​technologies: Scala, Play framework, PostgreSQL, React, Redux, Python, Flask, Spark, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS ECS, AWS RDS, AWS Kinesis, Metabase, GitLab CI/CD

### Senior Software Engineer @ Sigma Ratings, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area

### Software Engineer II @ SoundCloud
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | New York, New York
Revenue Development
- built a self-service web tool for native ads 
- integrated new ad formats and third-party ad networks across web, iOS, and Android
- built diagnostic tooling and scripts
- technologies: Scala, Finagle, Javascript, React, Ember, Clojure, Google DoubleClick

### Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area
- implemented endpoints and core libraries for the New Sales Navigator backend 
- trained and mentored the team in Play/Scala 
- modernized legacy systems for web crawling and scraping at scale
- ​technologies: Scala, Java, Kafka, Play framework, Rest.li

### Software Engineer @ Egraphs.com
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Seattle, WA
- built a Play library to password-protect applications with minimal configuration 
- refactored e-commerce backend to generically support new products and add-ons 
- improved analytics to track customer conversion rates 
- ​technologies: Scala, Play framework, PostgreSQL, Google Analytics

### Student Assistant @ University of Florida
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Gainesville, FL
- optimized SurfLab’s Computer Dental Simulation (CEDS) project for more responsive simulation of dental drill with haptic device 
​- technologies: C++, OpenGL

### Undergraduate Researcher @ University of Central Florida
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Orlando, FL
- participated in the Research Experience for Undergraduates in the Computer Vision Lab
- calculated depth information from defocus in variable aperture photographs 
- attended CVPR
- ​technologies: MATLAB

### Photo Assistant @ Jeff Kolodny Photography
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Lake Worth, Florida
- Photoshopped wedding photographs.
- Designed albums and slideshows.
- Assisted and shot photos at weddings.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of Florida
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012

### Associate of Arts (A.A.) in General Science and Engineering
Santa Fe College
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22