# Kevin Z.

> Software Engineer @ Databricks

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer Intern @ Riot Games
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
• Engineered a system to dark launch new player skill estimation methods and implemented ML model versioning in a Java microservice for 150M+ monthly League of Legends players.
• Implemented a new win prediction algorithm and ML model in Java, improving accuracy by 6%.
• Built data pipelines to analyze player engagement with progression systems using PySpark and Tableau.

### Software Development Engineering (Front-end) Co-Op @ Splunk
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Jose, California, United States
• Rewrote the Splunk Enterprise reports page in Splunk's React component library, serving 6M+ monthly views.
• Developed a library to dynamically generate components in TypeScript based on a HTML string input.

### Software Architect Intern - Autonomous Vehicle Platform @ NVIDIA
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Mateo, California, United States
• Worked on DRIVE Constellation platform, managing autonomous vehicle simulation infrastructure using Python.
• Created microservice to interface platform with our largest client's hardware
• Implemented architecture to allow for efficient autonomous vehicle simulation across computing clusters.
• Continued development on internal tools to allow for quick iteration and to ensure compatibility with hardware using Docker.

### Software Engineer Intern (Marketplace Content Team) @ Wish
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Integrated AWS Rekognition into the product auditing pipeline which decreased product tagging costs by 50%.
• Created Prometheus metrics to track the performance of various API endpoints and cron jobs.
• Updated Backbone.js and React frontend alongside Tornado backend for various internal tagging tools.
• Wrote cron jobs in Python to prioritize product tagging impacting over $20 million of annual revenue

### Data Engineering Software Developer @ Raven.ai
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Developed scripts to generate reports on client manufacturing metrics using pandas, numpy and matplotlib.
• Analyzed the impact of using data-classification heuristics of data, categorizing 10% of unlabelled data in Python.
• Automated repeated JIRA ticket creation with the JIRA API, saving over 10 hrs/wk across all departments.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Pulse Industrial
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
• Remodeled Flask backend for a customer-facing dashboard which reduced load times by 90%.
• Wrote MySQL scripts to add new customers, fetch historical component data, and automate data cleaning.
• Devised an anomaly detection program in Python to monitor component failures, deployed on AWS EC2.


## Education
### Bachelor of Software Engineering
University of Waterloo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevinzhang99

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Last updated: 2026-03-29