# Kevin Shu

> Software Engineer @ Cimulate

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinshu

I am a Software Engineer with a strong track record of delivering impactful solutions across backend development, full-stack web applications, cloud infrastructure, and data engineering. My core expertise spans Python, Golang, and JavaScript/TypeScript, with front-end experience in React, Next.js, and Tailwind, and infrastructure knowledge in AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

I have built and scaled ETL pipelines, APIs, and real-time data systems leveraging technologies such as Kafka, Prefect, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. My work also includes developing AI/ML-driven applications, including LLM-powered chatbots and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems using LangChain and LangGraph.

Beyond coding, I focus on reliability, scalability, and automation—implementing CI/CD pipelines, improving testing frameworks with Cypress and JUnit, and deploying cloud-native services at scale. I thrive in collaborative environments, working closely with product and sales teams to translate customer needs into technical solutions that drive adoption and business value.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Cimulate AI
Jan 2025 – Present | Boston, MA
- Acquired by Salesforce
- Improved and built product offerings, helping scale the company to ~6M ARR until eventual acquisition by Salesforce
- Architected and owned core backend services handling up to 1.1k peak RPS, ensuring low latency and high availability across search and recommendations platforms.
- Built and productionized a rules-driven recommendation engine supporting catalog segmentation, boosting/burying, filtering, and multiple recommendation groups; load-tested and deployed to high-traffic enterprise retailers.
- Designed and implemented a microservice architecture leveraging LLMs for intelligent search query evaluation and rewrites, enabling self-improving search behavior and stabilizing production traffic across 10+ customers.
- Reduced search and recommendation latency by 80–90% through multi-layer caching (API, inference, session, catalog), eliminating thundering-herd behavior during peak and holiday traffic.
- Led performance investigations and incident response across distributed systems (Elasticsearch, TorchServe, Pub/Sub, GCP), authoring postmortems and implementing durable reliability improvements.
- Acted as technical owner for multiple customer launches and demos, coordinating backend APIs changes in Golang, UI updates in React, infrastructure configs for deployments to Kubernetes, and model deployments while unblocking teammates and driving features from design to production.

### Senior Associate Software Engineer @ MathWorks
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Natick, Massachusetts, United States
- Managed and improved deployment process for widely used custom UI components, quickening developer workflows.
- Revamped performance testing strategies by implementing modern technology stacks for more accurate performance benchmarking.

### Associate Software Engineer @ MathWorks
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Natick, Massachusetts, United States
- Designed and developed a user-friendly and responsive UI from inception to deployment using React, incorporating best practices to enhance user experience. Spearheaded the entire development process, resulting in a modern application now utilized by over 2000 developers across the company.
- Streamlined deployment process by eliminating the need for a third-party dependency in the testing process, drastically improving the developer experience and reducing development cycle time.
- Improved UI regression test pass rate by 10%, implemented new UI tests using Cypress, and refactored JUnit backend tests for a Java Spring Boot microservice using RestClient.

### Learning Assistant - Programming in Python/Object Oriented Programming @ University of Southern California
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Los Angeles, California, United States
- Graded and held Office Hours for 200+ students from a wide variety of majors learning Python programming basics
- Assisted in the delivery of an introductory course in objected-oriented programming using Java

### Co-Founder/CEO @ COVER.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Los Angeles, California, United States
- Building a health insurance filing and reimbursement predicting startup for privately owned clinics
- Currently searching for new users to gain traction in the alternative medicine space
- Acquiring filing data to create a predictive software that provides information regarding reimbursement amounts and durations

### Tech Mini-mester Fellow @ Capital One
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | McLean, Virginia, United States
- Selected to participate in an immersive experience to enhance tech skills, soft skills, and project management
- Developed a chatbot using Python and Twitter API
- Created personal NFT collection
- Completed workshops on Deep Learning, GitHub, Cyber Secure Coding

### Data Science/Research and Development Intern @ Amgen
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Thousand Oaks, California, United States
- Produced machine learning model with 97% accuracy using sparse coding and KNN to identify peak shape.
- Synthesized Python script using Jupyter Notebook to properly label and accumulate 2500+ data collections,
allowing comparison between molecules and eliminating a commonly experienced pain point
- Crafted comprehensive dataset with 1500+ MCE traces to be used in peak identification model and future tools

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Southern California
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
- Studied the predictability of seizures in humans.
- Examined and labeled acquired neurological data.

### Medical Affairs Intern @ Medtronic
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Medical Assistant @ Juntendo Clinic
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Computer Programming Minor
University of Southern California

### High School Diploma
Glenbrook North High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kyshu
- Portfolio: https://www.kevinyshu.work/

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Last updated: 2026-03-28