Ivan Kevin Lam

Senior Engineering Manager at Kingsway Group · Cloud infrastructure

Kingsway Group

San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)

14+ years experience

UT Austin

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Currently at Kingsway Group, where I lead cloud infrastructure with a team of 46. Moved 62% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 634ms to 132ms. Before that: Expedia Group and Boston Consulting Group. Most at home with Terraform and SAST.

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LinuxSASTPrometheusAWSTerraformincident responseKubernetes

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Building out infrastructure at Kingsway Group: security engineers wanted in San Francisco

Role: Security engineer
Level: Senior
Type: Full-time
Work mode: Hybrid
Compensation: $174k-$231k + equity
Team: Infrastructure, 10 people
Start: This quarter
Must have: Production experience with Prometheus Production experience with Linux Ownership of something end to end
Process: Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $205k-$311k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

San Francisco, CAawslinuxprometheus

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Experience

Senior Engineering Manager
Apr 2024 - Present
Kingsway Group · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
- Built the experimentation framework 33 product teams use to ship changes safely.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 32 minutes to under 6.
- Shipped 27 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
Site Reliability Engineer
Jan 2021 - Apr 2024
Expedia Group · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
- Shipped 24 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
- Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 35% in two quarters.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Nov 2019 - Jan 2021
Boston Consulting Group · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
- Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
- Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 18 a week to 2.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Apr 2017 - Nov 2019
Coinbase · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
- Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 36% in two quarters.
- Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion.
Site Reliability Engineer
Mar 2013 - Dec 2016
Ford · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
- Wrote the Linux service that now handles 64 million requests a day.
- Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 32% in two quarters.

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UT Austin
BS, Mathematics
2008 - 2012

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