# Kyuran Kang > Founding Software Engineer / Product Manager of SixDegrees | MS in Computer Science - Machine Learning Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kyuran As a Founding Software Engineer and Product Manager at Six Degrees, I focus on building and scaling a full-stack social events platform (with AI concierge service on the way!) I contribute to product roadmap development, system architecture, and feature implementation, while driving user acquisition through strategic growth initiatives. I hold a Master of Science in Computer Science from Columbia University, with expertise in machine learning and natural language processing. My career is driven by a commitment to leveraging technology to create innovative solutions and optimize user experiences. ## Work Experience ### Founding Software Engineer / Product Manager @ Six Degrees Jan 2025 – Present | Remote - Launched a full-stack social events platform from 0→1 (React/TypeScript frontend, FastAPI/Python backend, PostgreSQL/Supabase, Twilio OTP, Stripe payments), enabling hundreds of early users to seamlessly discover, RSVP, and pay/refund, and refer for curated events. - Drove 1.2K+ new users in 3 months and doubled MRR in 2 months by launching growth-focused features including referral loops, optimized onboarding, and payment systems, expanding customer acquisition channels. - Led a cross-functional team to define the product roadmap and system architecture, owning UX flows, API contracts, data models, and CI/CD pipelines. - Fully replaced third-party stack (Partiful, YouForm, Zapier, Airtable) with in-house systems in 2 weeks, improving RSVP completion by 50%+, doubling new sign-ups via OAuth-powered onboarding, and capturing 15% more user data from +1s. - Eliminated major monthly SaaS spend by building backend automation layer for webhooks, SMS, notifications and an internal CMS/text-blasting dashboard, scaling to 100K+ monthly tasks while empowering ops to run campaigns without DB access. - Secured collaborations with community leaders, venues, and restaurants, expanding event pipeline and brand visibility, which contributed to 2.2K+ Instagram followers, fueling event participation. - Scaled marketing reach to 10K+ monthly SMS tasks by building an in-house automation tool, eliminating third-party reliance and empowering ops to independently run campaigns. ### Chief Technology Officer @ Mentee Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | United States ### Head of Product @ Mentee Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 ### Founding Software Engineer (Full Stack) @ Mentee Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, United States ### Graduate Research Assistant @ Columbia University Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States - Conducting research in development of multimodal transformer model for cross-cultural emotion detection - Collaborating with team of PhD and MS students to integrate text, speech, and visual algorithms for emotion identification in English, Mandarin, and Spanish conversations ### Graduate Teaching Assistant - COMS 4735 Visual Interfaces to Computers @ Columbia University Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States - Responsible for grading homework and exams for a class of 100+ graduate/advanced undergraduate students - Conduct weekly office hours to assist students with problem solving and project development - Participate in weekly staff meetings to discuss and develop course matters, including three assignments, project proposal, project demo and write-up ### Graduate Teaching Assistant - IEOR 4573 Deep Learning for NLP @ Columbia University Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | United States - Managed assessment and furnished detailed feedback on 14 coding assignments and two exams for 50+ students, focusing on implementation of deep learning models for natural language processing using PyTorch - Facilitated weekly office hours to advise students on various NLP techniques and models such as CBOW, Skip-Gram, CNN, Char-RNN, Seq2Seq, ELMo, BERT, and GPT ### Research Intern - LearnData Lab @ Sungkyunkwan University Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Suwon, Korea Conducted research in Commonsense Reasoning for the next Question Answering system with language model, extracting and generating multi-hop relations from knowledge graph with Graph Neural Network ### Research Intern - Process Design and Systems Engineering Lab @ Sungkyunkwan University Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Suwon, Korea - Conducted joint project in developing statistical model to detect outliers in COVID-19 symptom search patterns - Developed multivariate time series forecasting model, predicting COVID-19 confirmed cases using anomalous symptom search pattern - Devised and led weekly deep learning workshop for chemical engineering students and researchers ### Student Mentor @ Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education - KT Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seoul, South Korea - Mentored middle school students experiencing education gap during pandemic - Taught mathematics and English three times a week through online platform, all students achieved higher academic performances after tutoring - Led online campus tour and individual academic counseling sessions ### Intern - Office of International Student Services @ Sungkyunkwan University Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Suwon, Korea - Translated official documents to English, assisted translation in programs for international graduate students - Assisted administrative work in international graduate school admission process: answering questions via email and phone, wrote notice for applicants - Wrote intern guideline on case by case scenario and seasonal working protocols ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Columbia University Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### Bachelor's degree in Double Major in Chemical Engineering & Applied Artificial Intelligence Sungkyunkwan University Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kyurankang --- Source: https://flows.cv/kyuran JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kyuran/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01