# Stanley Kwong

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Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/stanleykwong

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Robinhood
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Robinhood Strategies
- Built out management fees
- Built out corporate actions processing pipeline
- Built out deposit bonus matching / clawbacks

### Engineering Manager @ Robinhood
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Compute Infra, Orchestration team - own 10+ clusters across 10k+ nodes with self-hosted Kubernetes on AWS. K8s upgrades, node auto scaling, change management.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Robinhood
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Observability experience team TLM
- migrated obs stack from SaltStack to Kubernetes
- developed a system for infra teams to distribute default alerts for all production teams at RH, significantly increasing our alerting/monitoring posture by providing standardized observability for all applications at the company

### Software Engineer @ Robinhood
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California, United States
2nd founding engineer of the Observability team (metrics, logging, tracing). Kept our observability stack alive w/ 1 other engineer during our most critical period of growth in 2020. Drove the company to evaluate observability solutions and replace our legacy ones.

Chronosphere (m3db), Prometheus, Cortex, Humio, Graylog, ELK, Grafana, Jaeger, Vector, Filebeat

### Software Engineer @ Mixmax, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Infrastructure engineering, series A startup (~50 people, ~15 engineers).
- Deployed and managed our company's first ever Kafka cluster (using Amazon MSK) to scale our highest throughput features (100s of millions events/day)
- Designed and implemented a job queue abstraction backed by Kafka to replace our previous Redis-backed job queue
- Owned our Jenkins code deployment pipeline, maintaining reliability and observability
- Built out various front-end components of our Chrome extension's Gmail integration in React

Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, EB, S3, MSK, Elasticache, Lambda), Mongo, Redis, Jenkins, Docker, Kafka, Elasticsearch
Web: JavaScript (ES6), React, Backbone, Node, Express, Rollup, Babel

### Software Engineering Intern @ Salesforce
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Lead Founding Engineer @ Riptide Messaging
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Berkeley, California
Lead of the founding engineering team (5 engineers) challenged to prove out concept.  
- Built out a large part of our Node/Express backend and managed our infrastructure
- Setup and maintained our AWS and Firebase infra
- Raised 120k pre-seed
- Somehow persuaded 4 dorm mates to each spend 10 hours a week to build this on top of being full time students
https://www.riptidehq.com/
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ryde
Formerly www.ryde.ai

### Software Engineering Intern @ Cyanogen
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Seattle, Washington

### Engineering Intern @ Fyber
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Technician @ WASD Keyboards
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014

### Legislative Intern @ California State Senate
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Mateo


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Cognitive Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Chinese Language and Literature
Fu Jen Catholic University

### Computer Science
The University of Hong Kong

### Burlingame High School


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/stanleykwong
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stanleykwong/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22