Kavan Lam Email & Phone Number

Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Lead and contribute to large scale multi-team projects affecting millions of students and teachers in the US. Responsibilities include designing new data models, writing technical design docs and initiating frequent.
• Work closely with product managers and other team leads to ensure project requirements are met including deadlines, business logic and market fit.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide constructive feedback and guidance on the regular basis.
• Periodically prepare and conduct training sessions for internal stakeholders on new product features and/or important technical changes.
• Conduct technical interviews to help recruit talent.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Full-stack web development on the Integrations team with a focus on supporting IXL's integrations including those with third party vendors such as Google Classroom, ClassLink and Clever.
• Took ownership and led the partnership between Google and IXL to create an add-on which would be used directly in Google Classroom. Responsibilities included, coding the single-sign on logic, ensuring technical.
• Led small to medium sized full-stack projects ranging from internal tools to customer facing flows serving thousands of teachers and students on the daily basis.
• Contributed to larger team projects by fixing and reporting bugs, implementing new features and suggesting better solutions to important technical problems.
• Wrote technical documentation on new and existing areas of the team's codebase.

Markham, Ontario

• Taught Computer Science and Programming in Python to classes with up to 8 students.
• Topics range from beginner level coding in Python to more advanced topics such as image processing, computer graphics, AI and competitive programming.
• Other responsibilities include grading homework and documenting the performance of students.

Ontario, Canada

• Provided 1-on-1 tutoring for topics in Mathematics and Computer Science.
• Ensured that students were confident and comfortable with the material being taught.
• Periodically give short assessments to students to observe their performance and gave constructive feedback.

Ontario, Canada

• Prepared and gave lessons across a wide range of disciplines. Subjects ranged from mathematics to reading and writing.
• Other responsibilities include documenting and evaluating the progress of each student after each session.

Markham, Ontario

• Provided level 3 support for WebSphere Application Server (WAS L3: Profiles)
• Worked on and contributed to IBM's Open Liberty Project (https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty).
• Daily tasks involved fixing bugs, implementing new features, testing and improving existing code.
• Also worked on designing and developing an internal tool powered by AI to help classify and triage defects based on description and title.