# Kevin Xiao > Software Engineer @ Squint Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinxiao Hardware and software enthusiast with a passion for open-source development and building cool things. 🙂 ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Squint Jan 2023 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ Lyft Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer @ Lyft Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area • Full-stack engineer on the Connected Experience team • Designed and implemented a searchable and interactive database for company organization roadmaps, allowing for faster and more transparent executive decisions • Engineering an internal search engine to provide a searchable interface for internal company data (teams, people, projects, documentation, etc.) • Frequent collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to voice feedback and improve product UI + UX ### Software Engineering Intern @ Uber Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, California • Augmented visibility for routing logic between internal services and external payment options through modernized metrics and stats • Introduced a Hive table data pipeline for payment lifecycle events, enabling a foundation for data analytics • Focused on payments intelligence as a member of the Money back-end team ### Software Engineering Intern @ Lyft Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Served dynamic ride options and ride recommendations for all Lyft users as a member of the Offerings back-end team • Developed a new ride mode for the Lyft ecosystem to reduce spikes in driver demand and decrease ETAs for passenger pickups during busy hours • Introduced a modular product framework to efficiently model new products for the ride mode selector • Implemented an asynchronous recommendation manager to power personalized ride selections ### Software Engineering Intern @ Yahoo Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, California • Designed and implemented an artifact signing service for validating the authenticity of millions of in-house artifacts built by the continuous integration pipeline • Integrated a centralized key management system to generate, rotate, and store OpenPGP key pairs • Managed Docker containers and Chef cookbooks for improving developer workflow and scalability • Worked on micro-services and the CI/CD pipeline in the Developer Platforms and Services team ### Server Developer (Co-op) @ ecobee Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Toronto, Canada • Integrated Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana into the server stack to index data from Kafka and MySQL into Elasticsearch, providing a foundation for data analytics and improving service response times by over 200% • Worked on an in-house administrative portal for managing millions of ecobee devices, incorporating modern accessible design, efficiency, and proper security measures into the final product • Member of the Server team; worked on back-end services using Java, Kotlin, MySQL, Apache Kafka, and Amazon Web Services ### Software Engineering Intern @ Zynga Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Toronto, Canada • Added adaptive sampling to the in-house logging service to regulate and stabilize server loads during busy-hours • Implemented a brand-new user search micro-service with auto-indexing of users via Elasticsearch + Amazon SQS • Built a flexible deep-equality JSON comparator with customizable field rules (ignoring, pruning, wildcards) to ease API upgrades • Member of the GameServices back-end team; worked on back-end services using Go, Java, and Amazon Web Services ### Quality Assurance Analyst (Co-op) @ Amaya Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Ontario, Canada • Developed an automatic XML-schema to Java Object code generator to expedite regression testing • Wrote automation tests in Java for Android mobile using Appium • Designed and completed test matrices for the PokerStars series products on the desktop and mobile team • Worked closely with mobile developers to complete unit, integration, and regression tests ## Education ### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Computer Engineering University of Waterloo ### Ontario Secondary School Diploma Agincourt Collegiate Institute ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kvnxiao - Portfolio: https://kevinxiao.ca - GitHub: https://github.com/kvnxiao --- Source: https://flows.cv/kevinxiao JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kevinxiao/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29