Kyle Finken

Kyle Finken

I'm Kyle, a full stack software engineer at Clari, where I'm working on building the future of AI-powered sales and revenue intelligence.

Seattle, WA, USA

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A blurb about me

I graduated from the University of Florida in December, 2023 with my bachelors in Computer Engineering (3.8/4.0). I heavily prefer strongly typed languages (TS & Go are my personal favorites), I don't like TDD, I like to iterate very quickly (131 wpm monkeytype), and I love to cook for my loved ones.

Where I've worked

Clari

02/2025 - Current

Software Engineer 2

Rapid promotion to SWE II (~8 months) recognized for outsized impact, and stellar execution. •Lead engineer for Enhanced Analytics - complete rewrite of the legacy analytics product. Shipped 64 new visualizations, end-to-end load/UI tests, observability tooling, and a natural-language analytics chat. Cited in $2.7M+ renewals. •Owned and maintained Activity Capture - core email/calendar ingestion pipeline powering downstream services processing ~1.9M emails and 4.3M events per week. Cut latency ~91%, resolved high-impact edge cases, and developed inbox-concurrency controls.

Clari

04/2024 - 02/2025

Software Engineer 1

•Led the development of Activity Summaries for the Groove extension, AI-generated high-level recaps of recent emails, calls, or sales opportunities. Utilized weekly by 40,000+ users. •Architected an internal API for unifying activity capture (email and calendar event ingestion) across Clari and Groove services, serving 100k+ requests/day. •Founded and host Clari Tech Talks, a company-wide forum regularly drawing 100+ engineers to share project developments, technical learnings, and discuss wins and challenges.

DataBanc

05/2023 - 04/2024

Full-Stack Software Engineer (Founding Team)

Quickly promoted from intern to founding team engineer, leading core features and cross-functional projects; worked directly with the CEO on product, marketing, and strategy—conducting campus user interviews and producing social campaign assets and demo videos. •Engineered comprehensive AI feature set, including embeddings and related infrastructure, using React, Langchain, PostgreSQL, and GCP. Ultimately enabling users to have natural language conversations with their personal data.

DataBanc

09/2022 - 03/2024

Full-Stack Software Engineering Intern (Founding Team)

•Built headless ingest pipelines using Puppeteer to submit CCPA data requests on users' behalf, removing manual forms and follow-ups. •Optimized existing REST API's, cutting latency by 86%, enhancing user experience, and reducing operational costs.

Publix Supermarkets

05/2022 - 08/2022

Software Engineering Intern (Search)

•Led the development and launch of trending searches, attracting over 30,000 users on the first day. •Introduced API enhancements to promote selected products on search result pages with Vue.js and .NET, boosting user search engagement by 10%.

Publix Supermarkets

05/2021 - 08/2021

Software Engineering Intern (Search)

•Revamped .NET APIs using C# to integrate advanced fallback search logic, decreasing no-result landing pages by 64%. •Collaborated with the UX/UI team to expand the existing Storybook component explorer system.

Education

University of Florida

2019 - 2023
Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering
GPA: 3.8/4.0

Languages

JavaScript
TypeScript
Ruby
C++
Golang
HTML
CSS
Python
SQL

Frameworks and Libraries

React/Next.js/Gatsby
Ruby on Rails
Node.js
Express.js
.NET
PostgreSQL
TailwindCSS
Jest
Prisma
Flask
Puppeteer
Docker
Vue.js
Langchain
MySQL
PyTorch

Tools

Google Cloud Platform
Heroku
AWS
Figma
Supabase
Firebase
Docker
Git
GitHub
Azure DevOps
Postman
Linux
Storybook