Kai Hu

Engineering Manager

San Francisco, California, United States21 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led development of advanced RTB solutions at Netflix.
  • Created automated testing frameworks improving efficiency.
  • Managed teams delivering high-quality products on time.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Software Engineer with expertise in Entertainment and Advertising technology.

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SQLDatabasesSoftware EngineeringRuby on RailsLinuxMySQLApacheTest AutomationSoftware DevelopmentRubyDistributed SystemsXMLJavaScriptJavaPostgreSQL

Experience

21 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
11 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Netflix

4 roles

Engineering Manager, Productivity Engineering

Mar 2022Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

Senior Software Engineer, Animation Studio Technology

Sep 2020Mar 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • - Building the cutting edge technology for Netflix Animation Studio

Senior Software Engineer, Content Intelligence Engineering

Jul 2017Sep 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • - Using the power of technology to bring scale and efficiency to the content acquisition and creation process

Senior Software Engineer, Digital Advertising

Feb 2015Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Led a team of engineers and data scientists to build the in-house end to end RTB solution from ground up in 4 months
  • Incorporated the industry leading data science modeling work into the RTB solution, which includes Incrementality(CPIA) based bidding, counterfactual/ghost ad based measurement and AB testing methodology
  • Applied the learning and insights from the RTB solution to various other marketing platforms that Netflix relies on for promotion to improve ad spend efficiency

Undertone

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

May 2011Feb 2015 · 3 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco

  • Managed Insights Analytics team and Ad Server team for design, development and maintenance of both systems.
  • In charge of the engineering of in-house technology responsible for delivering and reporting $150M+ revenue annually.
  • Worked closely with product, architecture and QA teams to make sure the dev teams deliver high quality product to the business on a timely manner.
  • Advocated a sustainable process within the team for designing and developing products with high scalability, availability and maintainability.

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2009May 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco

  • Main contributor for Insights analytics system, a reporting system for both publishers and advertisers, including big data ETL, aggregation and reporting, using Ruby on Rails based on Greenplum DB and Riak cluster.
  • Led the effort of the migration of Insights analytics system from Infobright DB to Greenplum DB, as well as the optimization work of SQL query performance, data storage strategy in both relational and NoSQL DB.
  • Participated in the design and development of Undertone Ad Server, which serves $200M+ impression annually, using C/C++ with Apache, and CouchBase on Linux.

Ebay cdc

Software Load & Performance Engineer

May 2007Dec 2007 · 7 mos · Shanghai

  • Worked as one of the only two dedicated load & performance engineers for the 350+ engineer org, and acted as a guardian of system performance for all projects delivered by this group.
  • Analyzed each and every project for the risk of performance degradation, and designed different strategies for load and stress testing different projects and features.
  • Performed system analysis from the perspective of load & performance, such as JVM static memory usage, I/O requests for database, CPU time, frontend rendering time, etc.

Global r&d center, health group, eastman kodak

Senior Software Automation Engineer

Feb 2006May 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos · Shanghai

  • In charge of automated functional testing of Kodak Computed Radiography(CR) product. Provided support to the whole team in the area of automated testing.
  • Created an event-driven automated testing framework for SQA team using VBA in Test Partner, which shortened regression testing cycle for more than 30% for Kodak CR system.
  • Performed Unix shell script based functional testing for Kodak System IV CPE project.

Fleety communications ltd.

Software Quality Manager

Jul 2003Feb 2006 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Shanghai

  • Performed quality assurance planning and resource management, also led a team of 6 engineers.
  • Set up a new process of software engineering for the company, which led to significant improvement of progress tracking and risk management.
  • Introduced automation testing methodology to the company, using LoadRunner as load and performance testing tool, and WinRunner as functional testing tool, which improved testing efficiency up to 15%.

Education

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

MBA

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Global Network of Advanced Management Certificate

University of San Francisco

Master’s Degree — Computer Science

Jiangnan University

Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Science and Technology

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