My name is Kevin Lyons, a Senior Software Engineer at DraftKings, and graduate of MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I have created this site to highlight my resume of academic, professional, and extracurricular accomplishments. A bit about me:

• Self-motivated, dedicated and intellectually curious young professional eager to take advantage of the many opportunities offered in today's tech landscape

• Focused on scalable architectures, user-focused web development, data science and machine learning

• Strong history of volunteer work with proven leadership skills in community programs

• Passionate about learning and making a positive impact on my community

• Looking to engage in diversity and inclusion efforts in the tech communtiy

• Effective communicator with a proven ability to tell compelling technical stories

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. '20
M.Eng. '21

Cambridge, MA

• MEng, Computer Science, with a focus in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

• Worked under Peko Hosoi and Christina Chase in the MIT Sports Lab

• Completed thesis Automated Force-Velocity Profiling of NFL Athletes via High-Frequency Tracking Data

• 5.0 graduate GPA (5.0 scale)

• B.S., Computer Science

• 4.9 undergraduate GPA (5.0 scale)

• For a list of all technical MIT courses I have taken to date, click here.

Weymouth High School '16

Weymouth, MA

• Valedictorian of 473 Students, 4.9 GPA

• National Honor Society Chapter President

• Senior captain of:

• Varsity Football

• Varsity Basketball

• Math Team

DraftKings

Boston, MA

Senior Software Engineer (March 2023 - Present)

Software Engineer (July 2021 - March 2023)

• Work on Account Platform Web team, building services for user account management using React, Redux, and TypeScript

• Supported intergration of third-party bot protection vendor, leading to a 70% reduction in overall web login requests

• Migrated release strategy to trunk-driven development with automatic deployments via Octo and Bamboo, reducing time to merge less than 1 hour (90% reduction) following all testing

• Lead integration of native web-view standardization initiative, bringing web account experiences to our 2 million unique monthly paying customers in our native apps

Software Engineer Intern (May 2020 - August 2020)

• Built full-stack integration with Zendesk that receives 16,000+ requests per day from 200+ internal users

• Built React-Redux frontend and .NET Core backend for new internal tool to manage all employee permissions that will serve 1,500+ users

• Wrote tech plan for new application and led meetings with internal company stakeholders for review

Uber Technologies

San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer Intern (May 2018 - August 2018)

• Built distributed data pipelines on PySpark for batch processing of 300K+ driver trip records

• Integrated with machine learning model that achieved > 0.9 AUC in predicting driver behavior and pricing

• Updated Cassandra table schemas and Go microservices to fix a bug that affected 50K+ drivers in NYC

MIT Professional Education

Cambridge, MA

Teaching Assistant (December 2017 - March 2021)

• Managed coursework for professional data science & analytics course with 3,000+ students over 3 years

• Monitored forum to respond to student questions and troubleshoot technical issues in Python & R

• Assisted students with understanding machine learning and data analytics fundamentals

Changing Places CityScience Research Team

Cambridge, MA

Research Software Engineer (September 2016 - August 2017)

• Assisted Master’s Thesis student seeking improved data-driven city space allocation for architects

• Optimized multi-agent Java simulation of 24 hr. real-time to 45 sec. run-time

• Generated train and test sets of 10K+ cities for supervised learning with JSON + Python data pipeline

• Utilized linear regression and shallow CNN for traffic volume and solar radiation predictions

LifeYield, LLC

Boston, MA

Full Stack Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2015 and 2016)

• Optimized all web service calls by 40% via improved XML serialization in C# backend

• Wrote and deployed log monitor in C# to connect cloud computing environment with Splunk + SQL

• Integrated load-balanced caching and distributed locking mechanism across replicated web instances

• Implemented front end enhancements and bug fixes for improved user interface, while keeping MVC structure intact

MIT Sports Summit

Co-Lead (September 2019 - January 2020), Website Lead (January 2021)

• Responsible for success of the 2019 summit, coordinating students and faculty

• Managed 12+ high level industry guests from around sport to attend conference

• Coordinated across teams spanning logisitcs, marketing, promotions, outreach, and finance

• Built out content and structure for latest version of website with custom MIT subdomain

• Returned to support efforts for 2021 summit, managing all website content and logistics

MIT Leadership Training Institute

Project Mentor for High School Students (September 2016 - May 2019)

• Participated in the same program when I was in high school

• Created community service initiaive in my town - computer science mentorship program for students in grades 3-8 in Spring 2015

• Selected to present my findings on campus

• Invited back to speak about the program after MIT acceptance

Resume

You can access a copy of my latest resume here.

Contact

The best way to reach me is via e-mail: [email protected].

I am also available on LinkedIn and GitHub.