BitGo
IncomingSoftware Engineer Intern, Settlement Systems (Go Network)
- Joining the settlement systems team to build low-latency institutional settlement features for digital asset platforms.
University of Waterloo · Computational Mathematics · Class of 2028
Kenny Wu
I build backend systems and the infrastructure they run on.
Fall 2026 · BitGo, Palo Alto
I’m a Computational Mathematics student at the University of Waterloo, drawn to the parts of a system nobody sees until they break: queues, schedulers, migrations, and the path a request takes before anyone notices it was slow. Three co-op terms are behind me and a fourth starts this fall at BitGo, working on settlement systems.
So far that has meant replacing a five-second polling loop with an event-driven queue at PlayStation, moving 25M+ records through ETL pipelines at Versaterm, and cutting GraphQL query latency 40% at a Tokyo trucking platform. Outside of work I build things I actually want to use, like WatGuessr, a multiplayer campus guessing game that has carried 750+ players.
Tokyo Vancouver Waterloo Palo Alto
Experience
PlayStation
Software Developer Intern, Build, Tools & Infrastructure
- Re-architected internal compute provisioning from a 5s HTTP polling loop into an event-driven system on Redis and BullMQ, cutting runner invocation latency 70% and enabling dynamic auto-provisioning of ephemeral EC2 capacity under strict concurrency limits.
- Migrated 100+ Jenkins pipelines into a GitHub Actions monorepo and led the org-wide Snyk security integration, reducing workflow overhead 30% through reusable templates and hardened Docker and npm workflows.
- Built internal SDKs and Helm workflows that provision CI compute on AWS and Kubernetes, covering autoscaling, resource tuning, and reproducible deployments for mission-critical build pipelines.
Versaterm
Full-Stack Software Engineer Intern
- Built the company’s first data transparency platform, with ETL pipelines that ingest and normalize 25M+ records across 3 SaaS applications to enable cross-agency search for 1,400+ public safety organizations.
- Optimized JPQL queries and REST APIs across Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and Hibernate, cutting average API response time 40ms (10%) and reducing UI load time on the Vue.js client.
- Engineered a large-scale JSON reporting system that serializes nested relational data across multiple schemas, cutting duplicate incident entries 38% across cross-platform dashboards.
Azoop
Full-Stack Software Engineer Intern
- Shipped features on Japan’s leading trucking SaaS platform in Ruby on Rails and React, supporting data workflows for 10,000+ truck owners and 10+ transport firms.
- Improved data retrieval through GraphQL and schema optimizations, cutting query latency 40% and server load 25%, for roughly $40K in annual infrastructure savings.
Projects
WatGuessr
Live · Solo build
- A real-time multiplayer GeoGuessr-style game for the Waterloo campus, built on Spring Boot and WebSockets at sub-100ms latency, scaling to 750+ active players on PostgreSQL.
- Owned the end-to-end security and identity architecture: custom JWT, Google OAuth, Spring Security role-based access control, and rate limiting to close off denial-of-service vectors.
- Codified the full stack in Terraform and Docker Compose and exposed it through Cloudflare zero-trust tunnels, eliminating public ingress ports and making deployments reproducible across hosts.
Biquadris
Source
- A two-player Tetris variant in C++, with rendering optimized through board-state diffing to cut redraw calls 25×.
- Applied the Observer and Factory patterns alongside RAII and smart pointers for deterministic memory management.
Chordinator.AI
Hackathon
- An AI music generation system built on TensorFlow, modeling chord progression patterns from user input with interactive playback and export.
Award
Top 1% of 650+ global teams
Gold Award — PlayStation Hackathon XVIII
Spearheaded the core backend and database architecture and led a team of co-ops through feature development on a PS4/PS5-integrated player retention platform. The work went on to become a corporate patent filing.
Education
University of Waterloo
Honours Bachelor of Computational Mathematics, Co-operative Program
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