Kevin Pi

Backend software engineer, Dallas, Texas

I spent a little over two years at Capital One building observability infrastructure and automation on AWS, and data systems for HR. Now I’m building my own projects, from a prediction-market research pipeline to an online co-op game.

Open to backend and platform roles.

Work

Capital One

Software Engineer

Two teams in a little over two years: Observability Intelligence, on the company’s monitoring platforms, and People Tech, on HR data systems.

Aug 2023 – Oct 2025
McLean, Virginia

Observability Intelligence

OpenTelemetry release validation

30,000+ telemetry comparisons

Built a validation framework for OpenTelemetry releases, with infrastructure provisioned through AWS CloudFormation, to confirm production compatibility across 23 OS versions.

Dashboard cost remediation

80% less enterprise monitoring compute

Found misconfigured query intervals that were silently inflating cost, then scripted bulk updates to 60,000+ dashboards through New Relic’s GraphQL API.

Change management for monitoring

1.4M+ production alerts and dashboards

Built a platform-wide change management system to update production alerts and dashboards with zero downtime, enabling safe schema evolution across monitoring systems.

Regional failover

Simplified regional disaster recovery to one-click failover by onboarding EventBridge, Lambda, Batch and load balancers into a centralized failover platform.

Health monitoring on Kubernetes

Managed the Kubernetes clusters hosting distributed monitoring minions, which continuously tested health endpoints across observability platforms to support availability and catch service failures early.

Secrets rotation

Built a Lambda-based secrets rotation system that automated cross-account credential distribution through internal secrets management infrastructure, reducing the operational risk of static API tokens.

People Tech

HR data deletion platform

90% less manual work

Architected an approval-backed deletion platform across Snowflake and internal warehouses, adding validation and auditability for sensitive data workflows.

Internal HR API

1M+ requests a day

Maintained and extended an internal HR API: schema changes, caching improvements and cross-team debugging of client integration issues.

Sentiment analysis integration

Integrated a BERT-based sentiment analysis model for interviewer feedback into a production HR pipeline, delivering a proof of concept for Capital One’s newly released enterprise ML platform.

MassMutual

Software Engineering Extern

Built an internal Slack support chatbot using Amazon Lex, Slack APIs and NLP-based routing to improve onboarding and self-service access to technical documentation.

Sep – Dec 2022
Boston, Massachusetts

Source Corp

Software Developer Intern

Created automated Selenium regression tests for critical workflows under load, supporting 1,000+ concurrent sessions while reducing manual QA effort.

May – Aug 2022
Warsaw, Poland

Projects

Personal projects from 2026, built largely by directing AI coding agents (Claude Code and Codex).

Background

Education

Boston University

Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Computer Science

2020 – 2023
Boston, Massachusetts

Certification

AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Languages

Python, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, C++

Frameworks

Spring, FastAPI, Flask, React, Next.js, React Native

Platforms

AWS (Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, EC2, ECS, CloudWatch), OpenTelemetry, New Relic, Snowflake, PagerDuty, Docker, GitHub Actions

Contact

Open to backend and platform roles, on site or remote. Based in Dallas and open to relocating, including to the Bay Area.