My name is Kevin Lyons, a Lead 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
Effective communicator with a proven ability to tell compelling technical stories
Lead Software Engineer (July 2024 - Present)
Lead team of 7 engineers working across 5+ Node/TypeScript repositories, deployed via GitOps and Flux
Lead design and implementation of internal tool using react-router to process 25+ exclusion files/week containing PII
Lead weekly agile refinement meetings and provide feedback on all technical plans and pull requests
Lead response for all Production incidents, interfacing with Engineering, Product & Analytics stakeholders
Support hiring via 30+ technical and object-oriented interviews and 8+ campus events to date
Senior Software Engineer (January 2023 - July 2024)
Co-led development of Jenkins job to create 15+ new Node microservices, w/ Remix & Fastify templates
Led development of reusable components and theme on top of internal library w/ Emotion CSS
Co-led integration of third-party bot protection vendor, tarpitting 70% of login requests at origin
Software Engineer (July 2021 - December 2023)
Led webview standardization initiative, bringing web login and registration experiences to 2.7+ million unique monthly active users across 10+ iOS and Android apps
Led migration to trunk-driven development with automatic deployments via Octo and Bamboo, reducing time-to-merge by 90% to <1 hour
Software Engineer Intern (May - August 2020)
Built C# microservice to ingest Zendesk tickets into internal user-level tool receiving 20K+ requests/day
Built React frontend & C# backend to visualize AD groups & roles for all 4,500+ employees
Software Engineer Intern (May - August 2019)
Built internal MERN application for manual validation of 100K+ textual records using NLP-powered backend with BERT model
Led integration effort with offsite team to unify and migrate 20+ backend MongoDB schemas
Coordinated application feature requests from 6 internal users in 1-month of production testing
Software Engineer Intern (May - August 2018)
Built distributed data pipelines on Spark for batch processing of 300K+ driver trip records
Integrated with machine learning model that achieved > 0.9 AUC in predicting driver behavior & pricing
Updated Cassandra table schemas and Go microservices to fix a bug that affected 50K+ drivers in NYC
Data Analyst Intern (January - May 2018)
Worked with internal personnel to support data-driven analysis efforts using pandas and scikit-learn
Data Science Intern (May - August 2017)
Streamlined data from CSV/XML/DICOM image formats to common HDF5 data structure
Wrote Python HDF5 data loader for I/O of 20K+ lung nodule crops with preprocessing abstractions
Evaluated deep 2D CNNs for multi-label lung nodule classification use case
Co-authored patented reinforcement-learning-based clinician support system in coordination with Mass General Hospital (US20210027878A1)
Teaching Assistant (December 2017 - March 2021)
Managed coursework for professional data science & analytics course with 3,000+ students over 3+ years
Responded to student questions and troubleshot technical issues in Python & R
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 hour real-time to 45 second 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
Co-Founder and Lead Developer (Summer 2015 - May 2018)
Co-founded productivity app for Weymouth HS, winner of 2016 #1 Senior Project Award
Integrated push notifications of key events, alerts and custom class groups for students and faculty
Built AWS-hosted Express Node.js server with tiered user levels and 2-factor e-mail authentication
Maintained for 3+ academic years with 8,000+ downloads
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
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.
Valedictorian of 473 Students, 4.9 GPA
National Honor Society Chapter President
Senior captain of:
Varsity Football
Varsity Basketball
Math Team
Gordon Engineering Leader, Student Leader (September 2018 - June 2020)
Developed leadership, teamwork and communication skills in selective program for engineering undergrads
Engage in scenario-based practice of professional skills for industry contexts
Led team of 5 juniors to develop their own leadership skills in lab-based setting
Served as Program Student Leader from January - June 2020, managing over 130 students and 10 staff through the uncertainty of COVID-19 to still deliver a valuable leadership program
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
Linebacker/Special Teams Player (August 2016 - December 2019)
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
November 2016 - June 2020
Served as Chapter Vice President and Webmaster
Coordinated relationships with MIT, MIT IFC and other MIT groups
Previously served as Chapter Community Service Chair, January - May 2017
Was responsible for coordinating events for charitable service in the greater MIT community and beyond
You can access a copy of my latest resume here.
The best way to reach me is via e-mail: [email protected].