Kenny Lin

hello@kennykeni.com | New York, NY

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Education

Georgia Institute of Technology
Aug 2025 - Expected May 2027

Atlanta, GA

Master of Science in Computer Science (Concurrent B.S./M.S.)

Georgia Institute of Technology
Aug 2023 - May 2026

Atlanta, GA

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (GPA: 4.0)

Experience

Incoming Software Engineer Intern, Workplace
Fall 2026

Verkada | San Mateo, CA

  • - Incoming intern on Verkada's Workplace team.
Software Engineering Intern, Infrastructure & Network Observability
June 2026 - Present

Zayo Group | Denver, CO

  • - Built Backstage self-service flows that bind platform capabilities to services through a platform.yaml contract.
  • - Worked across GitLab, Helm, and Terraform provisioning paths for internal infrastructure and network observability workflows.
  • - Added GitLab CI validation for platform.yaml changes so invalid capability metadata is caught before merge.
Software Engineer Intern
Jan 2026 - Apr 2026

Hillclimb (YC F25) | Remote

  • - Built a research data platform UI and npm SDK with SvelteKit, Cloudflare Workers, and TypeScript.
  • - Implemented an AWS Lambda and HonoJS pipeline for coding trace processing and redaction.
  • - Managed Terraform across 6 AWS accounts and reduced NAT gateway costs by 74%.
Software Engineering Intern
May 2025 - Aug 2025

Viasat | Carlsbad, CA

  • - Automated customer order validation and fulfillment with Python batch processing and AWS SQS, increasing speed by 300%.
  • - Built concurrent worker pipeline processing 20+ batches in parallel, cutting runtime from 4 hours to 10 minutes.
  • - Designed GraphQL endpoints and integrated AWS SQS, S3, and CloudWatch for real-time batch monitoring.
Full Stack Developer
Jan 2024 - Dec 2025

Bits of Good (Nonprofit) | Atlanta, GA

  • - Reworked the iCAN backend into service and repository layers with Zod request schemas for medication flows.
  • - Built medication schedule logic, streak rewards, pet state updates, and notification paths for child and parent workflows.
  • - Wired React views through TanStack Query hooks so mutations, invalidation, and onboarding state stayed consistent.
Machine Learning Undergraduate Researcher
Aug 2024 - Dec 2025

Intelligent Digital Communications | Atlanta, GA

  • - Developed a near real-time system to identify and triangulate wireless users in signal-dense environments.
  • - Applied transfer learning to Co-DETR models with PyTorch and scikit-learn, achieving 85% detection accuracy.

Featured Projects

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Aglaea
TypeScriptSvelteKitElysiaGoPostgreSQLKafkaQdrantCloudflare Workers

Production Cobblemon wiki at cobblemonwiki.com, backed by the Aglaea frontend, Herta data API, and Cyrene RAG/indexing service.

iCAN / Bits of Good
TypeScriptNext.jsMongoDBZodTanStack QueryAbly

Medication-adherence game for children in clinical trials, built with Bits of Good for Atlanta nonprofit iCAN.

Learn&
TypeScriptNext.jsConvexExcalidrawVercel AI SDKTailwind CSS

AI-powered collaborative classroom platform that pairs students by complementary knowledge gaps for peer learning.

Banana Farm
TypeScriptReactConvexCloudflare WorkersVitest

Shared multiplayer banana counter with server-authoritative clicks, upgrades, passive ticks, presence, and a leaderboard.

Agentic RAG
PythonFastAPILlamaIndexQdrantPostgreSQLDocker

Autumn, a Python FastAPI RAG backend for document collections, retrieval tools, and lower-cost self-hosted deployment.

Valedictorian
TypeScriptElectronReactSQLiteDrizzleCLI

Local-first job-application workspace with an Electron app, SQLite/Drizzle data model, local API, CLI, and shared contracts.

Technical Skills

Languages

Python, TypeScript, Go, JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, C, C++, SQL, HTML/CSS

Frameworks

React, Next.js, SvelteKit, Hono, Elysia, NestJS, FastAPI, Kysely, BetterAuth, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LlamaIndex, Tailwind

Databases & Cloud

PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLite, Convex, Redis, Qdrant, AWS (Lambda, RDS, SQS, S3, CloudWatch), Cloudflare Workers, Docker

Platform & Tools

Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, GitLab CI/CD, Backstage, Kafka, Ably, Git, Linux, Bun, RESTful APIs