# Kevin Meyer

> Founding Engineer @ Pure (YC S23) | Ex-Google

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinmeyer

O-1 Extraordinary Ability technologist, founding engineer, and ex-Google software engineer with experience building products used by billions and scaling fintech systems from $10M to $450M+ in processed volume.

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Pure (YC S23)
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
At Pure (YC), I serve as the founding engineer responsible for the company’s entire technical platform: from architecture to production scale. We’re rebuilding the precious metals market with transparent, automated, institutional-grade fintech infrastructure.

Impact:
- Technical owner of the platform, building all core systems (frontend, backend, infra, DevOps, and internal tools) and supporting the company’s post-YC fundraising and early scaling.
- Scaled total processed volume from ~$10M to $450M+, enabling high-throughput order processing across thousands of customers.
- Designed and implemented an automated market-making engine facilitating tens of millions of dollars in trades, improving liquidity, spreads, and pricing reliability in a traditionally opaque asset class.
- Built end-to-end KYC/KYB, accounting automation, logistics automation, and operational dashboards supporting 2,000+ daily orders and fully automated reconciliation workflows.
- Partnered with the founding team on product direction, technical strategy, and early engineering hiring & technical due diligence.

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Zurich, Switzerland
At Google, I worked across YouTube’s Creator Content Publishing team and Google’s Effingo data-infrastructure platform, building large-scale systems and user-facing features used by billions.

Key Contributions:
- Built production features for YouTube Studio and the YouTube main app, improving creator tooling, workflows, and mobile UX at global scale.
- Designed and implemented full-stack systems for creator publishing pipelines used by billions of users worldwide.
- Contributed to Effingo, Google’s global data-transfer platform replicating exabyte-scale data across worldwide clusters; improved reliability, throughput, and operational tooling.
- Collaborated across Android, backend, SRE, and product teams to deliver high-reliability features under massive traffic and global workloads.

### Software Engineer @ YouTube
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Zurich, Switzerland
Built and shipped creator-facing features used by billions across YouTube Studio and the main YouTube app.

Key Contributions:
- Designed and implemented the full-stack mobile Download feature, recognized by YouTube leadership for engagement impact.
- Built the Upload feature for YouTube Studio from scratch, porting complex logic from the main app and implementing new workflows.
- Led the UX modernization of YouTube and YouTube Studio Android apps.
- Improved reliability and user experience across content publishing flows.

### Associate Software Engineer @ SAP
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
SAP Analytics Cloud — Performance & Visualization Engineering

Key contributions:
- Engineered core components of SAP Analytics Cloud’s visualization engine, a platform used by 1M+ enterprise users worldwide.
- Optimized the React–HANA data pipeline, delivering a 20% improvement in dashboard rendering speed and significantly improving user experience for real-time analytics.
- Built and refined large-scale data processing flows powering advanced reporting, predictive insights, and complex enterprise data modeling.
- Collaborated with product, design, and data teams to deliver production-grade analytics capabilities across cloud environments and high-load scenarios.

### Graduate Trainee @ Deutsche Bank
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Frankfurt, Germany
SEPA Instant Payments - Real-Time Risk & Analytics

Key contributions:
- Built real-time anomaly-detection pipelines monitoring 200M+ SEPA Instant Payments per day, identifying irregular patterns across the entire payment engine.
- Developed the central API that generated cross-pipeline signals and operational indicators used for risk monitoring, system stability, and rapid incident resolution.
- Designed BI dashboards and analytical visualizations (Tableau) for senior leadership, enabling faster, data-driven decision-making across high-volume payment flows.
- Collaborated with engineering and operations teams to streamline monitoring, reduce false positives, and improve early detection of anomalies.

### Co-Founder @ Barbra
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Heidelberg, Germany
Co-founded an edtech platform that automatically transformed lecture notes into structured flashcards using NLP and machine learning. Built the full product from prototype to public launch and scaled it rapidly during the COVID-19 shift to online learning.

Impact:
- Grew the platform to 10,000+ weekly active students and teachers during its peak adoption.
- Designed and developed the full application stack (React, TypeScript, Python), including the NLP pipeline for extracting concepts from raw notes.
- Achieved a 4.7★ average user rating and built a nationwide ambassador network across German universities to drive growth and product feedback.

### Summer Intern @ Deutsche Bank
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Malware Analysis lab. Combined sources from several security firms & data vendors to classify unseen threats which resulted in classification algorithms combining several footprints, databases & other relevant metrics. 
The algorithm had 95% accuracy. It facilitated responses & countermeasures to new threats.

### Self Employed @ Unknown
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Germany
Crypto market making algorithms, gaming apps, smart contracts, cv creators, etc.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Heidelberg University

### Bachelor's degree in Economics
University of Mannheim

### Master of Business Administration - MBA in Strategy & Leadership
Paris Metropolitan University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05