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

DraftKings

• Lead team of 9 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

Uber

• 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

Philips Acute Care Solutions Team

• 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)

Changing Places CityScience Research Team

• 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

LifeYield, LLC

• 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

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

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

• Valedictorian of 473 Students, 4.9 GPA

• National Honor Society Chapter President

• Senior captain of:

• Varsity Football

• Varsity Basketball

• Math Team

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.