Kang Peng

AI Application Engineer · ex-PayPalpkdlmu@163.com+86 178 0153 3830

Built and shipped AI-powered applications used by hundreds of users.

Financial Systems

Engineer with 3.5 years of experience at PayPal and a track record of independently building AI products used by hundreds of real users. Designs and ships products from 0 to 1 across LLM workflows, financial systems, API platforms, and full-stack applications.

3.5
Years of Experience
3
Products in Production
0
P1 Incidents

01Experience

PayPal

PayPal— Software Engineer II

2022.11 – 2026.05 · Shanghai

Built engineering infrastructure and end-to-end payment solutions for PayPal Complete Payments Platform, covering merchant onboarding, checkout, payment processing, subscriptions, and settlement workflows.

  • Expanded merchant onboarding across marketsManaged Accounts V3 · 14 European countries

    Helped extend US-only onboarding APIs to 14 European countries, translating country- and entity-specific KYC/KYB requirements into fields, documents, and validation rules. Integrated automated eKYC, manual document collection, and account, payment capability, and limit updates while preserving US backward compatibility.

  • Built payment lifecycle workflows around Orders V2Orders V2 · Payment processing

    Covered CAPTURE/AUTHORIZE payment flows, refunds, fixed and rolling reserves, reserve releases, and settlement workflows.

  • Extended API automation into buyer-facing Checkout ExperienceXO · Selenium

    Built automation across API and UI layers for login, payment selection, order summary, buyer approval, and payment completion.

  • Developed custom webhook configuration for SubscriptionsSubscriptions · REST Apps · Webhooks

    Enabled merchants to select an existing REST App for subscription plans, implemented configuration persistence, retrieval, and updates, and integrated with existing webhook notifications.

  • Built an AI-assisted subscription workflow platform and shared engineering infrastructureLLM workflows · Jenkins

    Combined prompt engineering, payment expertise, and reusable workflows to enable natural-language E2E execution and detect cross-service payment regressions.

LLM ApplicationsJavaREST APIsPayment SystemsSeleniumPlaywrightJenkinsWebhooksFastAPIRedisPostgreSQLDeepSeekCodex
Shopee

Shopee— Software Engineer

2022.07 – 2022.09 · Shenzhen

Role ended due to company-wide restructuring. Context

  • Built real-time ETL pipelines for store and order event streamsFlink · Kafka · Redis

    Implemented deduplication, joins, and risk-control rules for real-time anti-scalping workflows.

FlinkKafkaRedisScala
Baidu

Baidu— Software Engineer (Intern)

2021.04 – 2021.07 · Beijing

  • Built offline data-sync pipelines (HDFS → MySQL / FTP)Spring Boot · Hadoop

    Added Grafana-based monitoring and alerting to improve data-job observability.

Spring BootHadoopMySQLRedis

02Independent Products

AI-powered products shipped to real users.

03Skills

AI
LLM APIsPrompt engineeringAI agentsStructured outputsContext & memoryWorkflow automation
Backend
JavaPython / FastAPINode.jsREST APIsPostgreSQL / Redis
Frontend
React / Next.jsTypeScriptSwift / SwiftUI
Infrastructure
SupabaseRailwayVercelCloudflare
Payment
Orders APIVaultingSubscriptionsWebhooksCheckoutPayment lifecycle

04Education

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

M.S., Nanoscience & Technology

2019.09 – 2022.06 · GPA 3.45 / 4.0

Dalian Maritime University

Dalian Maritime University

B.E., Marine Engineering

2015.09 – 2019.06 · GPA 3.88 / 5.0 · Ranked 2nd in major

05Awards

National Scholarship × 2 (top 1% nationally)

2017 / 2018

DMU President's Scholarship — Top 10 Outstanding Students

2018

UCAS First-Class Academic Scholarship

2020 / 2021

PayPal Spot Award — Payments E2E Team

2023

PayPal Props (10 bravos)

2024