Kevin Bai

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States11 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Scholar.
  • Expert in Forward Deployed Engineering and Enterprise Problem Solving.
  • Fluent in six UN official languages.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Full Stack Engineer with a strong emphasis on enterprise solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Forward Deployed EngineeringEnterprise Problem SolvingSoftware EngineeringFull Stack EngineeringData ScienceProject ManagementSoftware DevelopmentData Analysis

Other Skills

Customer SuccessCollaborationProblem SolvingBusiness DevelopmentJavaScriptReactNodeData CollectionPublic SpeakingResearchLeadershipSocial MediaWireframingDesignDebugging

About

Hello, my name is Kevin. I know three things: Forward Deployed Engineering, Enterprise Problem Solving, and International Expansion. I am a William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Scholar and have studied at the University of California Berkeley, Oxford University, and the American University in Dubai. šŸš€ My main focus is leveraging technology to solve enterprise problems at the local, regional, and global level. Technology is the means, not the goal. 🧠 My background spans diplomacy, sales, business development, product management, customer success, software engineering, and forward deployed engineering—which brings them all together. I love new opportunities and I learn quickly. šŸŒŽ I’ve lived and worked across North America, Europe, the Middle East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South America, and speak the six official languages of the United Nations. You’re very welcome to reach out. zkevinbai.com

Experience

Rippling

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Jan 2025 – Present Ā· 1 yr 2 mos Ā· San Francisco, California

  • Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Rippling, first hire
  • Here to help build the FDE function at Rippling — a Forward Deployed Engineer is part consultant, part product manager, and part software engineer: a founder-shaped engineer.
  • We solve enterprise buisness problems for Rippling’s largest and most strategic customers. If there’s a SKU a customer needs that Rippling does not have, we invent it. Our north star is the success of our customers on Rippling.
  • Created the Slack channel and GitHub repo, authored the first FDE SOPs, completed the first FDE project, wrote the first 250K lines of FDE code, built 5 MCPs / Skills to improve FDE output, made customers happy. Actively collaborating with sales, marketing, engineering, product, and customer experience to build incredible apps for customers.
Forward Deployed EngineeringEnterprise Problem SolvingSoftware EngineeringCustomer Success

Palantir technologies

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

May 2021 – Apr 2025 Ā· 3 yrs 11 mos Ā· New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Denver, Washington DC, Bogota

  • I solve open-ended problems at the most important institutions in the world. I own every stage from discovery to delivery—translating business needs into product capabilities and leading teams to build full-stack software that creates measurable value. I bridge the gap between the potential of the platform and the needs of the customer.
  • šŸŽ© Hats I wear: Forward Deployed Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Product Manager, Data Scientist, Business Development, Consultant, Strategist, Customer Success
  • āš”ļø Technologies I use: TypeScript, React, Python, Spark, PySpark, SQL, Azure, AWS, Foundry, Data Pipelines, AIP
  • šŸ¦‰ Work I do: Establish and own client relationships. Ideate and scope features. Plan and schedule work. Lead teams of engineers and consultants. Create datasets and models. Build full stack applications.
  • Work I've Done
  • šŸŗ Led a $X million project to digitize the innovation workflow of a Fortune 500 CPG company. Built five applications in six months, drove adoption from 0 to 800 users in two months, and achieved $XX million in year-over-year savings for the client—more than 10Ɨ their initial expectations.
  • āœˆļø Led a $X million project to improve operational efficiency and safety for a Fortune 500 airline. Digitized safety analysis across the organization, automated reporting for damages and injuries, and improved the efficiency of a major engineering division by 10 hours per engineer per week.
  • ā™»ļø Led development of the first auth-agnostic, stack-agnostic user information module. Built the company’s first internal pipeline connecting internal and demo environments, improving data consistency and accelerating deployment cycles across teams.

Globality, inc.

Full Stack Software Engineer

Jun 2019 – May 2021 Ā· 1 yr 11 mos Ā· San Francisco Bay Area

  • šŸ¦„ Globality became a unicorn while I was there!
  • Wore multiple hats and worked with an incredible team to build the future of professional-services procurement for Fortune 500 companies. Joined shortly after the garage stage and stayed through Series E, we raised over $350 million over two years for a trailblazing AI Enterprise SaaS platform—before ChatGPT even existed.
  • Built with JavaScript, React, GraphQL, Node, and Python to create the first AI-powered procurement ecosystem, helping enterprises connect with service providers worldwide and save up to 40 % on eight-figure projects.
  • šŸ„‡ First Place — 2020 Globality Hackathon
  • Led product engineering for multiple key features, from technical design through production
  • Improved platform accessibility from 52 / 100 to 95 / 100, achieving WCAG AA compliance
  • Introduced and implemented Amplitude analytics across the platform using the delegation pattern
Full Stack EngineeringData ScienceBusiness Development

Comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty organization - ctbto

United Nations Youth Representative

Jan 2017 – Present Ā· 9 yrs 2 mos Ā· Vienna, Austria

  • šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡³ United Nations Keynote Speaker
  • UN Science and Technology Conference — Vienna, Austria
  • UN Youth Conference — Moscow, Russian Federation
  • šŸ“° Youth Newsroom Reporter
  • Organized and conducted interviews for UN News with senior executives of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), including:
  • Wolfgang Hoffmann — Negotiator of the CTBT Treaty
  • Dr. Lassina Zerbo — Executive Secretary of the CTBTO
  • Interview Links
  • https://news.un.org/en/story/2017/06/560612
  • https://www.unmultimedia.org/avlibrary/asset/1922/1922910/
  • https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10155712113079047&ref=sharing
  • https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=10155536355439047
  • Currently working with the CTBT team to advocate for the full enforcement of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).

Unhcr, the un refugee agency

Private Sector Partnerships

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 Ā· 1 yr Ā· Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  • šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡³ Worked in support of refugees during the peak of the 2017 Syrian Civil War and Refugee Crisis.
  • šŸ¤ Partnerships
  • Built partnerships with leading corporations and nonprofits on behalf of the United Nations.
  • Partnered with IKEA to design and produce a modular refugee shelter that could be mass-manufactured, assembled without power tools, and easily repaired.
  • Partnered with Facebook to launch the first Virtual Reality fundraising campaign for refugees.
  • Partnered with Microsoft to enable digital cash-aid distribution for displaced populations.
  • šŸ’¼ Business Development
  • Developed the Qatar outreach strategy for UNHCR Private Sector Partnerships.
  • Analyzed the public, private, and NGO ecosystems of Qatar.
  • šŸ—£ļø Advocacy and Public Relations
  • Co-wrote the UNHCR MENA Newsletter for April–August 2018, responsible for research, design, and editing.
  • 🧾 Executive Briefing
  • Authored briefing documents for the High Commissioner of UNHCR on Qatar and the Gulf Cooperation Council.
JavaScriptReactNodeFull Stack EngineeringSoftware Development

Us-mex forum for cooperation, understanding and solidarity

United States Representative

Jan 2016 – Dec 2016 Ā· 11 mos Ā· Mexico City, Mexico

  • US-Mex FoCUS is a binational forum organized by Stanford University and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de MĆ©xico (ITAM) with the mission of improving relations between the United States and Mexico and promoting cooperation between young leaders from both countries.
  • I represented American interests to Mexican leaders in the fields of Business, Science and Government.
  • I met with representatives from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Blue Box, CONACYT, El Senado de La Republica, La SecretarĆ­a de Relaciones Exteriores, TelMex CEO Hector Slim and Peruvian President Dr. Alejandro Toledo to discuss solutions to current issues and methods to improve bilateral cooperation.

Berkeley lab

Undergraduate Researcher

Jan 2016 – May 2016 Ā· 4 mos Ā· Berkeley, California

  • Student Researcher on the 2016 California Water Usage Report team.
  • Published once every 20 years, this report identifies the precise allocation of water within the state of California and identifies opportunities to decrease waste, reuse water and increase efficiency.
  • Data Collection & Data Analysis
  • Worked with the California Department of Water Resources to publish the 2016 California Water Usage Report
  • Collected and analyzed data on the water usage and water management strategies of over 2000 farmers in California
  • Successfully identified strategies to reduce water use by as much as 50%

Morgan stanley

Wealth Management Intern - Venture Capital

Aug 2015 – Dec 2015 Ā· 4 mos Ā· Walnut Creek, California

  • Worked at the Morgan Stanley VC and big tech wealth management practice.
  • Sales & Relationship Management
  • Pitched products and services to 175 plus individuals a day
  • Owned pipeline end to end, from lead generation to account management
  • Developed relationships with Directors, Vice Presidents, and Executives in Silicon Valley
  • Investment Strategy
  • Researched, studied, and summarized major market trends
  • Assisted with portfolio management
  • Performed analysis using Microsoft Excel

Autodesk

Innovation Researcher

Aug 2015 – Dec 2015 Ā· 4 mos Ā· San Francisco, California

  • The Autodesk Innovation Genome is a collaboration between Autodesk, The Nobel Prize Foundation, The University of Berkeley Haas School of Business, and The University of Oxford Said Business School.
  • This project is focused on analysing Nobel Laureates to gain insight into how they learn, think, work, and create, and use those insights to develop practical innovation techniques that would be applicable to other research business, education, and eventually greater society.
  • innovation.autodesk.com
  • Project Management & Research
  • Worked with a team of 8 to research and authored reports on the backgrounds, notable work and ongoing research of 4 Noble Laureates per week
  • Analysis
  • Identified patterns in the problem solving strategies utilized by Nobel Prize Winners using Dedoose to identify trends and patterns

Uc berkeley model united nations

Director Of Business Development

Mar 2015 – Mar 2016 Ā· 1 yr Ā· San Francisco Bay Area

  • http://www.ucbmun.org/
  • Event Planning
  • Worked with a team of 12 to plan, operate, and host the largest International Relations conference on the West Coast.
  • UCBMUN XX was held at the San Francisco Financial District Hilton and with a total of 700 attendees from the US and abroad.
  • Sales and Relationship Management
  • Owned partnerships pipeline, from lead generation to negotiating agreements between UC Berkeley Model United Nations and various buisnesses
  • Negotiated airline partnerships with Deutsche Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines AG, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings GmbH, germanwings,, and Swiss International Airlines Ltd.
  • Negotiated sponsorships from Magoosh, 7 Sage, Seton Hall University, New England School of Law, and Tufts University
Data CollectionData Analysis

Apus group

Marketing Consultant

Mar 2015 – Jun 2015 Ā· 3 mos Ā· San Francisco Bay Area

  • Social Media Marketing
  • Designed a marketing campaign to test their product with the University Market
  • Started and grew a UC Berkeley APUS group to 120 plus members
  • Branding and Design
  • Created weekly marketing materials using Adobe Illustrator
  • Planned and executed Facebook campaigns that reached 1,500 people weekly

Google

Sales Extern

Feb 2015 – Apr 2015 Ā· 2 mos Ā· San Francisco, California

  • Research & Sales Support
  • Designed, researched, and prepared a new product pitch to the CMO of Airbnb
  • Studied current marketing products and analyzed their potential and match to the needs of Airbnb, Disney, MGM Grand and Caesar’s Entertainment

Uber

Operations Associate

Jan 2015 – May 2015 Ā· 4 mos Ā· San Francisco Bay Area

  • Operations & Growth
  • Contacted and pitched driving with Uber to 25 drivers a week
  • Collected data to onboard new drivers and dealt with driver complaints

Miss universe organization

Marketing Director - UC Berkeley

Oct 2014 – Mar 2015 Ā· 5 mos Ā· Berkeley, California

  • Partnerships
  • Reached out to Media, Fashion and Entertainment for sponsorship or advertisement opportunities to increase funding for the competition.
  • Succeed in generating over 7,000 dollars in sponsorships, partnerships and donations from various Bay Area companies such as Centro39
  • Planning and Logistics
  • Coordinated event, found an avenue, sourced necessary publicity materials with a team of 12
  • Maintained relationships with the 8 largest cultural groups on campus

Kevin bai

Public Speaker

Aug 2014 – Present Ā· 11 yrs 7 mos

  • šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡³ Keynote and Panel Speaker at Enterprise and United Nations Events
  • 🌁 2025 November — Y Combinator — San Francisco, United States
  • 🌁 2025 October — Rocketlane — San Francisco, United States
  • šŸ”ļø 2022 September — Palantir — Denver, United States
  • šŸ‡¬šŸ‡§ 2022 July — Palantir — London, United Kingdom
  • šŸ’» 2021 November — United Nations — Remote
  • šŸ™ļø 2021 May — Palantir — New York City, United States
  • šŸ’» 2020 October — General Assembly — Remote
  • šŸŽ° 2019 April — Atlassian — Las Vegas, United States
  • šŸ‡·šŸ‡ŗ 2018 October — United Nations — Moscow, Russian Federation
  • šŸ‡¦šŸ‡¹ 2017 July — United Nations — Vienna, Austria
  • 🌁 2016 October — FOCUS — San Francisco, United States
  • šŸ‡²šŸ‡½ 2016 April — FOCUS — Mexico City, Mexico
  • šŸ‡µšŸ‡­ 2016 January — VAW — Manilla, Philippines
  • šŸŒ‡ 2015 December — REACH — Los Angeles, United States
  • šŸŽ“ 2014 August — University of California Board of Regents — Oakland, United States

University of california student association

Student Advocate Representative

Aug 2014 – Dec 2014 Ā· 4 mos Ā· San Francisco, California

  • Lobbying
  • Selected to represent the 234,464 students of the University of California System to the UC Regents
  • Attended monthly University of California Regents Meetings to speak on behalf of students
  • Communicated major student interests such as preventing tuition raises, increasing diversity, and divesting from fossil fuels

Wjb automotive

Sales Intern

Jun 2014 – Aug 2014 Ā· 2 mos Ā· Panama City, Panama, Mexico City, Mexico

  • Represented the Company
  • All Latin America Auto Trade Show in Panama City
  • PAACE Trade Show in Mexico City
  • Sales and Purchasing
  • Presented the company to potential suppliers in Chinese and potential buyers in Spanish
  • Contacted 50 possible suppliers daily in Mandarin Chinese for purchasing
  • Contacted 50 possible clients daily in Spanish for sales

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Environmental Science

University of Oxford

Sustainable Development

American University in Dubai

Middle Eastern History

University of California, Berkeley

UC Center Paris

App Academy

Full Stack Web Development

Diamond Bar High School

International Baccalaureate Diploma

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