Senior Software Engineer

Kevin Wong

*******@*****.*** gnublet.com github.com/gnublet linkedin.com/in/gnublet 310-***-**** Tucson, AZ Experience

Senior Software Engineer, AURA – Tucson, AZ Apr 2025 – May 2026

● Architected infrastructure stability fixes that achieved a 100% reduction in production downtime, eliminating sporadic outages.

● Designed and deployed core features for our infrastructure, web services, and citizen science products for the Rubin Observatory using Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Github Actions, Terraform, Helm, Google Cloud, Hasura, Typescript, PHP, Python, Postgres, Redis, Memcached, and NextJS.

● Elevated unit testing standards from near 0% to above 90% across several repositories, and added mutation and end to end tests.

Systems Analyst, City of Tucson – Tucson, AZ Aug 2023 – Apr 2025

● Engineered a critical bank reconciliation workflow and payment preprocessor for municipal audits, successfully resolving a technical bottleneck that had stalled external consultancy teams using Python.

● Built an internal graph-RAG and vector-RAG documentation search tool that reduced document retrieval time by 98% using Langchain, Langserve, Ollama, Llama-index, Neo4j, and Chromadb.

● Spearheaded an OCR workflow for digitizing handwritten city records, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to align system deliverables with operational requirements.

● Architected and built a desktop application that streamlined cross-departmental Workday workflows for Finance, HR, and IT teams using Python and SQL Server.

● Modernized, standardized, documented, and version-controlled many undocumented, legacy ETL/preprocessing scripts from VBA, Access, Excel, and Powershell to Python and Azure Devops to make the codebase maintainable. Software Engineer, Medically Home – Remote, US Mar 2022 – Dec 2022

● Maintained an internal tooling app using Flask, SQLAlchemy, Postgres, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, Drone CI, GCP, and the Android Management API to manage apps and devices for a hospital at home company. Senior Applications Developer, University of Arizona – Tucson, AZ Jan 2021 – Mar 2022

● Assumed interim responsibilities for the Chief Applications Developer, ensuring essential feature deployment for critical applications including Medlearn (LMS) and COMHelp (ticketing system) using PHP, MySQL, Laravel, VueJS, F#, SQL Server, TeamCity, and New Relic.

● Created ETL pipelines to automate academic reporting for work-based assessments and exams which received commendation from key stakeholders due to high-impact and a quick turn around time.

● Developed a high-concurrency load-testing framework using Go and Puppeteer for performance testing. Systems Analyst and Application Developer, USA National Phenology Network – Tucson, AZ Oct 2019 – Nov 2020

● Developed several features for our citizen science apps using Angular, Java, Javascript, PHP, Drupal, Cake PHP, and Postgres.

● Introduced and rolled out Elasticsearch for centralized logging of our many web services. Exposed the team to Docker, Docker-swarm, and Kubernetes.

Senior FeedDev Engineer, Feedonomics – Woodland Hills, CA Mar 2017 – Oct 2019

● Integrated e-commerce platforms like Bigcommerce, Woocommerce, etc. to various marketplaces like Google, Amazon, Walmart, etc.

● Provided critical custom solutions for many Global 500 companies using PHP, SQL, and Python.

● Mentored and trained junior developers.

TA -> Lecturer -> RA, Ohio State University – Columbus, OH Aug 2012 – Aug 2016

● Taught many lower division physics recitation and labs

● Performed research in Cognitive Psychology using Python, R, and SAS for statistical analyses. Education

Ohio State University – MS Physics 2014

University of California Riverside – BS Pure Math, BS Physics (Phi Beta Kappa, High Honors)2012 Stanford – AI Graduate Certificate 2025 – (In Progress) Coursera – Deep Learning Specialization 2018

Skills

Languages: Python, PHP, Typescript/Javascript, Go, C++, C, Zig, Rust, R, HTML, CSS, SQL, Cypher Technologies: Postgres (PostGIS, Apache Age, pgvector, Citus, CloudNativePG), MySQL, SQL Server, Neo4j, Redis, Kafka, Nifi, Mongodb, Clickhouse, Apache, Nginx, AWS, GCP, Git, Github Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, llama.cpp, HuggingFace, ROCm, HIP, CUDA

Packages: Pytorch, Jax, Keras, Tensorflow, Pandas, Numpy, Triton, FastAPI, Flask, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, PySpark, Matplotlib, Plotly, Langchain, Llamaindex, MLFlow, Airflow, Dagster, AstroJS, Svelte, Vue, React, NextJS, Flutter, D3, OR-tools, Django, Drupal, Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium

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