Kevin Li — Engineer & Composer

work — git log

commit HEAD → main · Jul 2026 — present · ↑ promoted

Capital One · Loss Mitigation & Auto Finance Technology · Plano, TX

Created VORTEX, an AI-powered vulnerability remediation CLI that automatically analyzes, updates, commits, and deploys dependency fixes using generative AI — cutting remediation effort from 30 minutes to under 5 and driving adoption across multiple engineering teams.
Technical lead for a large-scale AWS infrastructure modernization — helping migrate critical services to dedicated cloud environments and leading the first team in the organization to achieve full migration completion.

commit streaming-platform · Jan 2024 — Jul 2026

Capital One · Loss Mitigation & Auto Finance Technology · Plano, TX

Led development of distributed data processing platforms using Apache Beam, Apache Flink, Kafka, and AWS — powering nightly processing of millions of auto loan accounts for Capital One's loss mitigation platform.
Pioneered the org's first production deployment of Apache Beam on Flink Runner, consolidating legacy processing into a high-throughput streaming pipeline handling over 1,000 accounts per second.
Designed scalable backend services for customer communications, legal compliance, and platform operations — email delivery, certified mail tracking, observability, incident response, and high-availability automation.

commit dealer-leads · Aug 2022 — Dec 2023

Capital One · Dealer Leads Platform & Auto Finance Technology · Plano, TX

Developed Admin API 2.0, modernizing a mission-critical platform API and enabling email communications alongside SMS for thousands of dealers and tenants.
Built tenant onboarding, lifecycle management, health monitoring, and automated testing while refactoring 1,000+ lines of core business logic for maintainability and scale.
Collaborated across product, platform, and infrastructure teams to deliver secure, reliable backend services supporting Capital One Auto Finance.

commit sap-coop · Apr 2019 — Jun 2022

SAP America · Cloud Ops, Tech COE & IT Mobility · Newtown Square, PA

Executive-facing PWA dashboard used by SAP leadership and DevOps; cut Redis load with Node.js microservices and trimmed 400+ lines of frontend via a reusable D3.js library.
Enterprise data automation — built an on-prem-HANA-to-cloud migration tool, automated Python ingestion pipelines, and demoed a live pipeline to 300+ stakeholders.

commit init · Jun 2022

Drexel University · Pennoni Honors College · GPA 3.80/4.00

1,000+/s

Auto loan accounts evaluated per second, down from a 10-hour nightly batch.

$50M

Combined value of platforms I've engineered for — loss mitigation and legal strategy.

6×

Faster vulnerability remediation org-wide with VORTEX, my Claude-powered CLI.

1st

In the organization to ship Apache Beam + Flink to production, and to finish the Gen3 migration.