Kyle Klein Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

April 2023 - present: Drive UTL (uber technical lead). I set the technical direction for the Drive team ensuring the infrastructure and features we build and maintain are fast, reliable, sustainable in the long term, and able to support the development we need to grow the business and delight our users.April 2021 - April 2023: Lead and manager of the Drive Frontend teams (Web, Android, iOS), Intelligence, and API (~110 engineers). Responsible for maintaining the FE infrastructure that powers our clients as well as building features ranging from table stakes enterprise features to ML powered suggestions to make our users more productive. Additionally, I served as a technical leader in Drive and lead critical Drive initiatives involving teams across Google Workspace.May 2018 - April 2021: Technical lead of the Enterprise Content Management team (ECM) in Drive. I guided the technical direction of our ECM features (e.g. Approvals, Labels, Shared Drives) and personally led large complex projects spanning dozens of teams across Drive & Google Workspace. I also managed a large portion of the ECM team (~15-20 engineers).

Mountain View, Ca, Us

April 2017 - May 2018: Technical lead and manager for the Drive Business Logic team (~10 engineers). We maintained the core business logic and build features in a wide variety of areas for Google Drive. I led many post-GA improvements to shared drives such as additional sharing settings, the introduction of the content manager role, among many others.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

June 2016 - March 2017: Engineer on Team Drives Backend team on Google Drive. I designed and built numerous features such as folder moves, Google Vault integration, and wipeout support. July 2014 - June 2016: Engineer on Google Photos backend team. Designed and built many features at launch such as link sharing and photo deduplication, and post launch improvements like shared albums, the shared album sync protocol, and commenting.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Engineer on the Google Photos backend team.

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

I TA'd CS56 - Advanced Application Programming for Prof. Phill Conrad three times (Winter 2011, Spring 2011, and Winter 2012).

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Worked on G+ Photos and Events backends and client side code. Built end to end and launched Update Highlights feature in the first half of my internship.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Worked on G+ Photos and Events backends and client side code. My primary project was building profile photo suggestions.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Worked with the photos backend team in the old LA office primarily on improving photo indexing.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science