# Kevin Wu > Software Engineer | Ex-McKinsey | Ex-Citadel Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinwu Kevin is a full-stack engineer in NY. His most recent position was a Software Engineer at McKinsey & Company where he worked in teams to build applications across the fintech space. Before that, he was a software engineer intern at Citadel and BNY Mellon where he built software to help his team mitigate SLA risks. He obtained his B.S. in Computer Science at New York University, with a solid foundation in software engineering and finance. Kevin loves to explore new technologies, has a sharp product sense, and is a great team player. ## Work Experience ### Founding Full Stack Engineer @ Grantx Jan 2024 – Present Building scalable data ingestion pipelines to maintain a database of over 500,000 active grants. Owning the development of a personalized grant search function, leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and custom vector search. Integrating key infrastructure to enable seamless and secure project collaboration. Developing and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline while establishing best practices for mono-repo development. ### Software Engineer @ McKinsey & Company Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | United States ### Web Developer at NYU General Engineering @ New York University Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 Introducing students to the various concepts and software used in engineering. Supervise and assist students in their Semester-Long Design Projects. ### Software Engineer Intern at BNY Mellon @ BNY Mellon Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States Developed a Centralized SLA Monitoring Tool to proactively prevent SLA misses by monitoring the client data generation and delivery processes through tracking 30+ markers daily. Implemented IMB MQ to queueing markers for asynchronous processing in a Microservice Architecture. Onboarded the firm to Genesis by hosting peer training, feature testing in the company environment, and thorough documentation of the limits and capabilities of the software ### Software Engineer Intern @ Citadel Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Building a new website that allows for users to update email routing throughout the company. This website greatly reduces the time to update routing from hours to minutes, increasing productivity and decreasing risk throughout the company. Independently built all aspects of software including front-end, back-end, and database. ### Programmer and Researcher @ NYU Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States As a member of NYU’s Smart Wearable Bio-Tracker for In-Home TeleRehab & TeleMonitoring Team, I collaborate with a team of researchers and engineers to invent a wearable, cost-efficient, accurate telerehabilitation & telemonitoring unit. ### Mobile Application Developer @ NYUnity Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Built an app providing NYU students with a safe platform to bond, form study groups, and stay informed on events. Focused on Frontend/UI Development. ### Private Tutor @ Thinking Caps Group Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 I empower students with a unique and effective virtual learning experience. By creating personalized lessons for my students, I not only learn to adapt to each of them but to know them on a deeper and personal level. Over time, I'm not just a tutor but also a role model for each of my students. ### Multi-subject Tutor @ Leap Education Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science New York University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shixinkevinwu --- Source: https://flows.cv/kevinwu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kevinwu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20