# Kevin L. > 🚌 🚎 πŸš‡ APTA Emerging Leaders Program 2025 | Software Engineering at Token Transit Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinl2 Transit professional working on building the future of fare payments! ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Token Transit Jan 2021 – Present | Fully Remote, Brooklyn, NY Currently one of the leads on our push to build tap-to-pay for public transit on our fleet of farebox validators. I've also built out the backend for smart cards and other transit ticketing solutions. Previously helped scale institutional pass programs and built tooling to empower a small but powerful Customer Success team to serve over 200 agencies. Implemented engineering best practices including end-to-end testing, continuous deploys, incident review and code review. ### Software Engineer @ Facebook Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California I've worked on the Content Controls team, a team under Privacy tasked with giving people control of their presence on Facebook. In Privacy I worked on: * Manage Activity, a suite of tools designed to help people curate their content on Facebook. * Off-Facebook Activity, a tool that allows people to see and clear data that advertising partners send Facebook. I've worked across the stack on technologies like React, React Native, Relay, GraphQL, PHP (Hacklang), and Flow-typed JavaScript. ### Incident Manager On-Call @ Facebook Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California, United States Privacy IMOC was a rotational oncall role at Facebook. When I was oncall, my full-time responsibility was to provide guidance to teams facing privacy incidents and provide a mitigation path forward for them. I also regularly attended incident review and helped teams with incident retrospective, guiding them along the principles of improving DERP (Detection, Escalation, Response and Prevention) I was required to coordinate work across timezones. The North American IMOC operated in conjunction with the European IMOC based in London and so when signing off, I would provide them with all the context on ongoing privacy incidents. ### hackNY Fellow @ hackNY.org Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | New York, NY "The hackNY Fellows Program, now entering its eighth year, is an intensive program designed to introduce students to NYC's startup ecosystem by pairing the best technical minds with great New York startups. You'll live in the heart of NYC with a cohort of some of the most talented and creative student technologists from all over the world. Local startups are carefully selected for the program and demonstrate both innovative tech and a strong mentoring environment. You will contribute meaningfully at your paid internship and learn from your work, our curated Speaker Series, and your fellow hackers. In an initiative led by our AlumNY and reflecting their community values, you will volunteer in programs for positive social impact in NYC. With a focus on increasing diversity and inclusivity in tech, you'll work within underserved communities by teaching, mentoring or using your technical skills for social good." ### Computer Science Teaching Assistant @ Haverford College Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Hilles Lab, Haverford College Courses TA'd: Intro, Data Structures, Speech Synthesis & Recognition, and Compilers. Also provided assistance to students learning frontend and backend web development. ### Client Services Student Assistant @ Haverford College Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Haverford College ### Arabic Peer Tutor @ Haverford College Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Office of Academic Resources, Haverford College ### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, California I helped Facebook build spam-fighting systems that scale in Haskell. Read more on our engineering blog. ### Software Engineering/UX Design Intern οΌˆθ»Ÿδ»Άι–‹η™Όε―¦ηΏ’η”ŸοΌ‰ @ tenten Creative | 軒軒剡意 Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Built an internal human resources app working with a React frontend and Firebase backend. ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Linguistics Haverford College Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ### International Baccalaureate Diploma International School of Beijing Jan 2008 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevinjcliao - Website: https://kevinjcliao.gitlab.io --- Source: https://flows.cv/kevinl2 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kevinl2/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20