Senior Software Engineer at Spotify
New York, New York
OpenComm Group
Mobile SDK Developer
September 2012 to February 2013
Cornell University
Teaching Assistant - Functional Programming (OCaml)
August 2013 to December 2013
Spotify
Senior Software Engineer
Wanna
Cofounder
July 2013 to January 2015
Greater New York City Area
Gilt.com
Software Engineer
August 2015 to July 2017
Greater New York City Area
What company does Kevin Lei work for?
Kevin Lei works for OpenComm Group
What is Kevin Lei's role at OpenComm Group?
Kevin Lei is Mobile SDK Developer
What industry does Kevin Lei work in?
Kevin Lei works in the Computer Software industry.
Who are Kevin Lei's colleagues?
Kevin Lei's colleagues are Anish Chakraborty, Bruno Crolot, Carole Fourcade, Maxime Nivet, Florent Castelli, Thomas Blondeau, John Smothers, Dan Valente, Adam Levy, and Mike Biggane
💼 Past Experience
Kevin Lei has worked in a variety of technical positions within the past few years, including a senior software engineer at Spotify and backend engineer at Gilt.com. He has also worked as a teaching assistant andcurator of local events.Kevin Lei's most recent experience as a software engineer is as a senior software engineer at Spotify. He has held this position for 6 months, and within this time, he has developed the ObjC Audio SDK and taught programming at Cornell University.Kevin Lei remarked on his previous experiences: "I’ve had a few years of experience as a software engineer, and I work with a lot of different technologies. When I was looking for a new job, I found that Spotify was a great place to work because they are a huge company and they are always looking for new talent."Kevin Lei's most interesting experience was working as a teaching assistant for functional programming at Cornell University. He found this experience to be very interesting, as it taught him a great deal about the field. "I really enjoyed the teaching assistant role. I was able to teach students how to use functional programming languages in a fun and interesting way."
🎓 Education
Kevin Lei is a currently enrolled computer science student at Vanderbilt University. Kevin Lei's previous education has included: Valedictorian at Valhalla High School from 2002-2004, B.Sc. Computer Science at Cornell University from 2004-2006.Kevin Lei has cited Cornell University and Vanderbilt University as his favorite universities. He has said that he enjoyed his time at Cornell and enjoyed the classes that he took there. He also enjoyed the people that he met there.Kevin Lei cites Vanderbilt University as his favorite university because the students there are always making sure that they are doing their best. He enjoyed the computer science classes that he took at Vanderbilt University and felt that they were the best that he ever took.
💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills
Kevin Lei is currently a senior software engineer at Spotify who moved to the company from OpenComm Group in February 2013. Lei started his job at Spotify as a mobile SDK developer. After a year and a half, he moved up to the position of Backend Engineer. His focus at Spotify has been data infrastructure, which is the part of the software that processes and stores data. Lei has also worked as a curator for local events. He was also a software engineer at Gilt.com for two years.
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