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    Vein Kong

    Vein Kong

    Michigan and USC CS, thesis in multiple sequence alignment

    CTO San Francisco University of Souther...
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    Join me at Stripe!
    108 Open Positions · $156k–$334k/yr
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    Stripe
    Stripe
    Software Engineer 2021 - Present (about 5 years)
    Netskope
    Netskope
    Staff Software Engineer 2020 - 2021 (over 1 year)
    - Helped build out initial datalake
    - Rewrote data ingest
    Aquabyte
    Aquabyte
    Sr. Software Engineer 2019 - 2020 (about 1 year)
    - Early engineer that built out most of the cloud backend and infra services.
    - Worked with deep learning engineers to deploy computer vision models (YOLOv3, Conv Pose... more machine) into production
    - Developed a highly scalable Go web service to serve a prioritized workload, ingesting data at 5K/min, using DynamoDB for the data store.
    - Created data infrastructure: data pipeline ETL written in Scala using AWS Lambda, data warehouse using Postgres declarative partitioning, and Airflow
    - Architected, Developed, and Deployed image pipeline infrastructure. (SNS, SQS, ECS Fargate, sagemaker)
    - Used EMR spark to execute long running jobs, scaffolding with Terraform
    Formation
    Exit
    Formation
    Sr. Data Engineer 2017 - 2019 (over 1 year)
    - Worked on batch processing of data with Spark and AWS in Scala using Airflow
    - Worked on Haskell webservice
    - Developed Airflow DAGs in Python
    - Tech Lead on feature... more development

    Other technologies used: Postgres, Redis, Redshift, Nix, Kinesis, S3
    Credit Karma
    Credit Karma
    Data Engineer 2016 - 2017 (over 1 year)
    - Developed a library for sending tracking data encoded as a blockchain.
    - Tools include Kafka and Google Cloud
    - Worked on data ingest service developed in Scala using... more Akka and Spray. Processed streaming data of 1M txn and 1GB of data/min from event and service sourcing
    - Developed a data validation framework and engine using Akka streams
    - Worked on production support of data platform infrastructure such as Kafka and services hosted on the Google cloud platform
    - Lead an effort to standardize behavioral user data tracking and analytics by creating an obfuscated append only log for front-end tracking.

    Other technologies used: BigQuery, GCS, Secor, Terraform, Ansible, Salt
    Theranos
    Theranos
    Sr. iOS Engineer 2015 - 2016 (about 1 year)
    - Worked with a team to develop iOS app using Swift.
    - Worked with WKWebKit, UITableViewController, MapKit and Core Data
    - Published app into App store
    Allwayswithyou
    Allwayswithyou
    Software Engineer/Data Engineer 2005 - 2014 (almost 9 years)
    Validation Tools
    - Help add new features to Intel's silicon validation tool.
    - Work with industry standard hardware-debug protocols such as JTAG and I2C, as well proprietary... more Intel internal protocols.
    - Help users of the validation API and wrote documentation
    - Worked on improving performance of the software stack.
    - Developed and designed middleware layer between UI and executing hardware layer using C++, C#, and Python

    Factory Automation
    - Developed PL/SQL ETL code for factory automation, creating key indicators for manufacturing usage.
    - Extract, analyze, and correlate very large datasets
    -Site product owner for Business Intelligence tools such as Business Objects and in-house data warehousing tool
    - Developed Test and Validation website.
    - Developed C# and ASP.NET code for automating metrics collection on client side software and predict factory inventory using a proprietary machine learning algorithm
    - Architect, designed, and developed plotting fitting application to help device engineers analyze circuits and fit plots using webservices.
    - Project manager for NextGen UI effort for manufacturing metrics.
    NovoDynamics
    NovoDynamics
    Research Scientist 2002 - 2003 (11 months)
    - Developed programs in Perl/Python and C++ to strip/standardize data for data mining purposes for the auto industry
    - Ported programs across different platforms and compilers... more for pharmaceutical companies.
    - Worked on the research grant program doing image analysis with Java and Python
    - Help develop an analysis algorithm for gel electrophoresis images
    Citigroup
    Citigroup
    Software Engineering Intern 2004 - 2005 (over 1 year)
    - Test and Debug middleware between Citibank ATM application and low level device drivers
    - Focused on card reader bugs
    - Developed intranet documentation site using... more PHP
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    Allwayswithyou, Credit Karma, Theranos, NovoDynamics, Citigroup, Formation, Aquabyte, Netskope, Stripe
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    Analyzing Criminal Networks and Predicting Missing Links
    Predicting missing links in criminal networks
    Abstract: Analysis of criminal networks is inherently difficult because of the nature of the topic. Criminal networks are covert and most of the information… · More is not publicly available. This leads to small datasets available for analysis. The available criminal network datasets consists of entities, i.e. individual or organizations, which are linked to each other.
     
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    Led team to revamp and launch new business intelligence tools for manufacturing

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