# Kevin Tong > Software Engineer @ Roblox Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kevintong1 Software Engineer at Roblox, working in the Consumer App Foundations team. Interested in software performance engineering, C++, data, and distributed systems. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Roblox Jan 2024 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States - Designed and implemented an experience launcher for Windows, reducing server acknowledgement times and improving user experience - Developed a Media Picker functionality on iOS, Mac, Android, and Windows for uploading media from the gallery or file system - Optimized memory efficiency for media files, reduced HTTP request creation memory footprint by 25% and latency by 80% across iOS, Mac, Android, and Windows - Set up a CI/CD pipeline for tracking app sizes across platforms and notifying engineers when their change impacts app size significantly, bringing more awareness to app size changes - Architected and developed a deferred asset delivery system to automatically offload assets to the CDN for deferred downloading and caching, reducing app size ### 6.1010 (6.009) Fundamentals of Programming Teaching Assistant @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Worked through weekly lab assignments and readings and provided thoughts on wording improvement, potential challenges, and relevance to course material - Held 9 hours of office hours per week to assist 600+ students with debugging their code and understanding course material - Provided feedback on student's completed code, including stylistic decisions, refactoring of code, docstrings, and appropriate commenting during lab checkoffs - Led weekly staff meetings to discuss tips for helping students understand course material and become better programmers - Developed and provided feedback for midterm problems ### 6.1010 (6.009) Fundamentals of Programming Lab Assistant @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Worked through weekly lab assignments and provided thoughts on wording improvement, potential challenges, and relevance to course material - Held 6 hours of office hours per week to assist 600+ students with debugging their code and understanding course material - Provided feedback on student's completed code, including stylistic decisions, refactoring of code, docstrings, and appropriate commenting - Attended weekly staff meetings to discuss tips for helping students understand course material and become better programmers ### Data Analyst, Software Developer, Researcher Intern @ Spero Goods Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Burlington, Massachusetts, United States - Queried and analyzed sales and pricing data of products on Amazon using PostgreSQL, Pandas, and Jupyter Notebook to determine user impressions, sales volume, and buy box percentages at various price points - Deployed an algorithm to automatically and optimally price over 50,000 goods daily to maximize profits (raised profits by 24.61%) by estimating total costs, maximizing buy box percentage, and increasing revenue - Developed a Slack bot that identifies mismatched listings with 83% accuracy and sends alerts daily - Designed and maintained a PostgreSQL database of daily analytic data from Amazon, speeding up queries and operations by a factor of over 700 - Trained a neural network using PyTorch to accurately predict the buy box seller on Amazon, and utilized this model to implement a pricing strategy - Compiled research process and results into MEng Thesis - Technologies Used: PostgreSQL, Python, Jupyter, Pandas, PyTorch, Plotly, Selenium, Slack SDK ### 6.1010 (6.009) Fundamentals of Programming Lab Assistant @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Worked through weekly lab assignments and provided thoughts on wording improvement, potential challenges, and relevance to course material - Held 6 hours of office hours per week to assist 600+ students with debugging their code and understanding course material - Provided feedback on student's completed code, including stylistic decisions, refactoring of code, docstrings, and appropriate commenting - Attended weekly staff meetings to discuss tips for helping students understand course material and become better programmers ### 6.1210 (6.006) Introduction to Algorithms Grader @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Graded biweekly problem sets for the Introduction to Algorithms class at MIT ### Research Technology Developer Intern @ Cubist Systematic Strategies Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States - Researched differences between the HDF5 and Parquet compression libraries in terms of implementation, file format, parameters, and parallelism - Created and ran benchmarks to compare the two libraries when compressing various data types using the LZ4 compression algorithm across several different machines - Aggregated data into graphs and compiled final results regarding compression ratio and compression/decompression times into a final report ### 6.4400 Computer Graphics Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Taught a review session for the C++ GLOO graphics library - Held weekly office hours to provide students assistance with understanding concepts covered in class and debugging biweekly coding assignments - Released and graded biweekly coding assignments - Designed questions for class quizzes - Answered student inquiries on the class forum ### Algorithm Engineering Intern @ Hudson River Trading Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States - Engineered and integrated a general-purpose context manager for logging start times, end times, and arbitrary context variables of scopes and functions using Elasticsearch into the caching code base - Designed an interactive dashboard for filtering, visualizing, and analyzing the logged data in tables, histograms, box and whisker plots, trace views, and waterfall charts using Dash and Sentry.io - Developed and conducted research on improvements for a parser that extracts earnings data from various sources - Technologies Used: Python, Sentry.io, Elasticsearch, Dash, Plotly, Pandas ### 6.002 Circuits and Electronics Grader @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Graded weekly problem sets from students taking 6.002, Circuits and Electronics ### 6.02 Introduction to EECS via Communication Networks Grader @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Graded weekly problem sets from students taking 6.02, Introduction to EECS via Communication Networks, including theory questions and python coding questions ### Software Development Intern @ Five Rings LLC Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States - Trading system enhancements - Trading simulator environment improvements - Interprocess communication based projects - Performance metric reporting tasks ### Software Engineer @ Cepton Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States - Designed and implemented a recorder widget using React.js, Electron.js, C, and C++, allowing users to save segments of the LiDAR sensor capture in the form of pcap and csv files - Architected a packet capture exporter in C# to receive and filter out point cloud data packets from the network and export them into a formatted pcap file - Developed a noise filter module that allows users to keep, filter out, or highlight noise from the LiDAR sensor capture replays by identifying and flagging points that are noise - Led the release of the LiDAR sensor point cloud viewer software by testing functionality and distributing bug fixes among the software team - Technologies Used: TypeScript, Node.js, React.js, Electron.js, Less.js, C++, C#, C, Python ### 6.009 Fundamentals of Programming Laboratory Assistant @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Worked through weekly lab assignments and provided thoughts on wording improvement, potential challenges, and relevance of course material - Assisted students taking the course on their labs during office hours - Conducted lab checkoffs to test student's understanding of the content after they've completed the lab - Provided feedback on student's completed code, including stylistic decisions, refactoring of code, docstrings, and appropriate commenting ### Course Developer @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Set up and analyzed code from open-source research software journals such as JOSS - Determined coding skills and methods of debugging code for research - Used discovered knowledge to structure a course that teaches these skills to student researchers outside of computer science relying on computation ### Math Instructor @ Mathnasium - The Math Learning Center Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Jose, California, United States Guided a group of 4 K-12 students at a time towards understanding of math concepts up to precalculus using Mathnasium material ## Education ### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science & Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 ### Bachelor of Science - SB in Computer Science and Engineering, Mathematics Double Major, Economics Concentration Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 ### High School Diploma University Preparatory Academy Charter Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevintong8 --- Source: https://flows.cv/kevintong1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kevintong1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23