David Kang

Current

• cofounder at 11 Strong

Past

• Principal Software Engineer at PayPal
• Engineering Manager at PayPal, Inc
• Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, Inc

• Software Engineer at PayPal, Inc

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Education

• University of Illinois
• Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Recommended

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Connections

214 connections

Industry

Internet

David Kang’s Experience

• cofounder

  11 Strong

  (Internet industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

• Principal Software Engineer

  PayPal

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ebay; Internet industry)

  March 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 3 months)

  * Cooperated with other technical leaders in the group to set a technical strategy for a team of approximately 30 developers.
  * Integral part of team that designed an infrastructure to improve availability of payments system from 97.5% to greater than 99.95% availability for merchant systems.
  * Worked closely with management to ensure that engineering team could provide a high quality implementation of design within time allotted.
  * Worked with small team to redesign section responsible for "payments". Refactored and redesigned code that handled 85% of money sent between users.
  * Provided leadership to team in the form of guidance in design, career mentoring, and navigating process within the company.

• Engineering Manager

  PayPal, Inc

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ebay; Internet industry)

  October 2002 — April 2004 (1 year 7 months)

  * Grew team from 3 engineers up to 10.
  * Reviewed product specifications for feasibility and estimation.
  * Reviewed technical designs to ensure a sound balance between scalability, maintainability, and time to market.
  * Responsible for maintaining high quality code while still being able to fit into aggressive schedules.
  * Helped with career management, 2 members of the team went on to join the architecture team, 3 members of the team went on to become managers, and 2 members of the team went on to join risk analytics R&D.

• Staff Software Engineer

  PayPal, Inc

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; pypl; Internet industry)

  January 2002 — October 2002 (10 months)

• Software Engineer

  PayPal, Inc

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2000 — January 2002 (2 years 1 month)

David Kang’s Education

• University of Illinois

  1996 — 2000

• Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

  1993 — 1996