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Kevin Kang

Questioner · DISC type c
Software Engineer at Discord
📍 Seattle, Washington, United States

Kevin is a Software Engineer at Discord focused on discovery, growth, and SEO. A University of Washington graduate, he previously worked at Meta on e-commerce loyalty programs and interned at Microsoft, where he developed an anomaly detection tool using NLP.

Outside of his main roles, Kevin has a background in teaching and mentorship, having served as a Teaching Assistant for systems programming. He is also an Eagle Scout, demonstrating a long-standing commitment to community and leadership from a young age.

He co-authored an article on using Vision AI and machine learning to analyze the U.S. Olympic Diving Teams performance.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
Software Engineer
Job Level
Middle
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States
Personality Overview

How Kevin shows up

Price-Sensitive
Systematic
Not Easily Convinced

While they don't hesitate to ask questions, they are generally risk-averse and tend to be late adopters. They prefer to fully evaluate every situation. They generally do not appreciate an overfriendly approach and prefer to stay to-the-point.

Priorities

Topics Kevin cares about

Mobile User Growth
At Discord, he led a mobile notification project to drive user engagement, indicating a focus on growth engineering and user retention strategies.
E-commerce Integrations
He co-led loyalty program integrations for sellers on Facebook and Instagram Shops, demonstrating experience with third-party APIs and scaling e-commerce solutions.
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Career

Work history

8-2025
Software Engineer
Discord
9-2019 - 11-2024
Software Engineer
Meta
9-2018 - 11-2018
Software Engineer Intern
Meta
6-2018 - 8-2018
Data Scientist Intern
Microsoft
9-2017 - 3-2018
Teaching Assistant
University of Washington
In the press

Media appearances

You’ve Got (Too Much) Mail: Behind the Scenes of the 3/25/26 Voice Outage. Featured in Discord Blog
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Discord Reveals How a Hidden Circular Dependency Triggered Its March Voice Outage. Featured in InfoQ
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Education
2015 - 2019
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
University of Washington
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

c

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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