# Kevin Luong > Software Engineer at Cohere Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinluong ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Cohere Jan 2022 – Present ### Software Engineer @ Instagram Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 ### Front-End Engineering Intern @ Facebook Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park Currently working on helping creating new pages and features for the www.facebook.com revamp! ### Software Engineer @ Splunk Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 At Splunk, I joined the Cloud Autobots team that works to increase developer and user productivity by providing automated services in a scaleable way on the cloud. Some technologies I'm currently working with are: Kubernetes, Docker, Go, Terraform and, of course, AWS. ### Software Engineer @ Correlation One Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area At Correlation One, I worked as a full stack engineer and created a social media platform for users to stay in contact with C1. It's roots stemmed from Facebook, Reddit, 4Chan and I learned a lot about the various problems that each of these giants have to overcome in order to make a functional product. Some technologies I worked with were: Go, React/Redux, PostgreSQL, Webpack, Django, GCP, and AWS. - Architected, implemented and tested a full stack social media platform utilizing the 
Google Cloud stack (Compute Engine, Storage, Firebase, CloudSQL) - Designed and implemented a polished user interface using React, Redux, and Redux-Observable - Created a RESTful API following micro-service architecture in Golang supporting following users, tagging content and basic auth with OAuth 2.0 register, and JWT - Specced out data models, SQL queries and implemented database in PostgreSQL ### Software Engineer Intern @ Connected Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Toronto, Canada Area At Connected, I worked for a variety of clients solving many interesting problems in incredibly diverse spaces. Some of the clients I worked for included: one of Canada's largest retailers, a billion dollar telecommunications company, and my favourite was creating proprietary internal tools for Connected. Some technologies I used were: React, Redux, Redux Observable, Mongoose & MongoDB, Webpack and Spring. - Created the Amazon Alexa native music playback skill for iHeart Radio. - Built a conversational/voice interface prototyping tool using Redux-Observable allowing deep analysis of voice configurations and Alexa utterances for CL clients. - Created an operations portal and data visualization tool using React-Redux and Spring for one of Canada’s largest retailers to manage 1000’s of orders across Canada. ### Software Developer Intern @ SMART Technologies Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Calgary, Canada Area At SMART Technologies, I worked on the SMART AMP team which provided an online collaborative workspace that multiple users can interact with simultaneously written in Ember. I also created an interactive video game for use on SMART boards. - Designed, developed and shipped features in a collaborative whiteboard web application used by thousands of teachers and students daily. - Led web development of a project involving the end to end creation of a polished educational game shipped in Q1 2017. - Organized and lead scrum meetings in biweekly demos to higher management showcasing designs, features in development, and releases. ## Education ### Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 ### Richmond Hill High School Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevinluong96 --- Source: https://flows.cv/kevinluong JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kevinluong/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23