Kevin Peng

Program Manager

San Francisco, California, United States8 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 9+ years in SaaS and on-premise software.
  • Certified Scrum Master and Product Owner.
  • Led strategic initiatives at Confluent.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Operations Manager with extensive experience in project and program management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementProduct ManagementCustomer Success

Other Skills

Cross-functional CollaborationOperational ProcessesAgile MethodologiesCustomer Feedback ManagementIncident ManagementIntegrationProcess ImprovementCustomer ServiceTrainingCommunicationMicrosoft ExcelPowerPointMicrosoft OfficeTime ManagementSocial Media

About

9+ years of experience working in both SaaS and on-premise software companies in roles revolving around project and program management, software implementation, process & tools building, release management, product management and problem solving. • Proven ability to lead the planning, execution and delivery of cross-functional projects and initiatives. • Demonstrated track record of building, implementing and iterating on scalable cross functional internal processes and tools • Proven experience in software release management and product operations, including product requirement defining, roadmapping, documentation and backlog grooming • Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner with experience in agile and waterfall development frameworks • Proactive and impactful self-starter with passion for solving problems through technology • Strong Jira system administrator with years of experience managing & building jira projects for product/engineering teams

Experience

8 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
2 mos
Current Experience

4 yrs 6 mos

Newton Software

Present

Temporal technologies

Senior Staff Product Operations Manager

Mar 2026Present · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Confluent

4 roles

Principal Technical Program Manager

Sep 2025Feb 2026 · 5 mos

Staff Technical Program Manager

Promoted

Feb 2022Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • As one of Confluent’s first TPM hires, I supported the Product & Engineering teams through driving various strategic initiatives and building/managing operational processes as teams rapidly grew and scaled. In this role, I am generally involved in particularly cross-functional activities requiring collaboration between multiple business functions and prod/engineering teams, consulting on team workflow management, and supporting quarterly/annual product planning.
  • Notable projects: Rollout of commercial model change in Confluent’s cloud product from capacity-based billing to usage-based billing; implementation of numerous connectors w/ third parties for moving data in and out of Kafka; launch of billing integrations with Cloud service provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) marketplaces; execution of various cross-functional efforts related to cloud margin improvement.
  • Notable processes/programs: customer listening program for capturing, managing & taking action on product feedback from field teams including customer escalation management; program for new product introduction (NPI) & cross functional approvals ahead of feature launches; process for managing company-facing product roadmap dashboard and any related communications/artifacts; incident response, management & postmortem program; leadership review forums for ensuring product&engineering alignment through SDLC; subject matter expertise (SME) program to develop field product expertise and support customers at scale.
  • Recognized with President’s Club award in 2020.
Project ManagementCross-functional CollaborationOperational ProcessesProduct ManagementAgile MethodologiesCustomer Feedback Management+1

Senior Technical Program Manager

Jan 2020Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Technical Program Manager

Nov 2018Jan 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

Clearslide

Customer Success Specialist

Feb 2014Jun 2014 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Identify and execute on opportunities to increase user adoption and reduce churn for a SaaS product
  • Analyze existing business processes to provide recommendations leveraging the software
  • Coordinate and lead web-based and onsite training sessions with end users
  • Assist users in the troubleshooting and resolution of any questions or issues
  • Develop various materials as needed – presentations, custom training curriculums, best practices and account plans

Epic

Project Manager / Implementation Consultant

Aug 2012Jul 2013 · 11 mos · Greater Madison Area

  • Worked closely with Sr. Project Manager in leading a team of eight analysts in the implementation of an industry-leading healthcare application’s Health Information Management module for a national organization impacting 80,000 end users
  • Responsible for determining project scope, creating project plans, writing progress reports, liaising between project teams and key stakeholders, researching and resolving technical issues, and ensuring objectives were met
  • Analyzed client business requirements to provide recommendations on workflow optimization and process improvements
  • Engaged in hands-on software build, testing, debugging and optimization
  • Coordinated and facilitated weekly meetings with people across broad technical backgrounds and organizational positions on project status, risk management, and task assignment
Customer ServiceTrainingProcess ImprovementCustomer Success

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts — Political Economy

Jan 2008Jan 2012

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