Victor Patrick Kang

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Director of Engineering, Beacon Energy - VS Code extensions · LSP · TypeScript

Beacon Energy
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
14+ years experience
Duke University
English, Mandarin
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Overview

Based in San Francisco. I lead developer tools at Beacon Energy. Grew the developer experience team from 6 to 31 engineers. Learning to draw.

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Skills
VS Code extensionsLSPTypeScriptCLI design

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Sep 2023 - Present
    Beacon Energy · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Wrote the LSP service that now handles 20 million requests a day.
    • Shipped 12 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
    • Built the experimentation framework 32 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Jan 2021 - Sep 2023
    Bain & Company · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Sit on 6 boards.
  3. Senior Software Engineer
    Feb 2018 - Jan 2021
    Lockheed Martin · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Built the experimentation framework 19 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Grew the developer experience team from 5 to 13 engineers.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    Aug 2014 - Feb 2018
    Cloudflare · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Grew the developer experience team from 4 to 15 engineers.
  5. Software Engineer
    Apr 2013 - Aug 2014
    MongoDB · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 773ms to 68ms.

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Education

  1. Duke University
    BS, Mathematics
    1998 - 2002

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