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Kevin Chong

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Previous Work

Amazon

SDE Intern · Jun – Aug 2026 · Arlington, VA

  • Migrated an internal inventory tool to a multi-agent platform (Bedrock AgentCore + OpenSearch), improving vulnerability mitigation for 10,000+ applications.
  • Scaled daily data-sensitivity classification to thousands of requests with a serverless Lambda, SQS, and SNS pipeline.
  • Cut chatbot first-token latency 85% (20s → 3s) with an AgentCore HTTP SSE gateway; raised user satisfaction 49% via a React UI.

Bedrock AgentCore · OpenSearch · Lambda · SQS · SNS · React

Knack Works

Software Engineer Intern · May – Aug 2025 · Chantilly, VA

  • Built a Rust CLI that batches package requests and processes them concurrently, making bulk downloads 10x faster.
  • Containerized and deployed an internal monitoring dashboard with Podman and Kubernetes.
  • Standardized deployment and configuration of internal services with reusable Helm charts.

Rust · Podman · Kubernetes · Helm

MITRE

ML Tech Lead · App Dev Club @ UMD

  • Led development of an AI assistant for multi-turn malware analysis in collaboration with MITRE.
  • Streamlined threat detection for user-uploaded files by building a chatbot with RAG using Elasticsearch and FastAPI.

Ollama · Llama 3 · LangChain · Elasticsearch · FastAPI

UMD RAAS Lab

ML Research Assistant · Nov 2024 – May 2025 · College Park, MD

  • Enabled autonomous 3D scene exploration for an AI agent by implementing a next-best-view selection algorithm in PyTorch.
  • Streamlined dataset curation for image-based modeling algorithms by creating Python scripts to compile images from photorealistic virtual environments.
  • Improved observability of neural rendering model training by building TensorFlow dashboards to track model performance.

PyTorch · TensorFlow · Python