Kevin Buoren Shiue

Engineering Leader

email: buoren@gmail.com  

phone: +31 (0) 6 55991777

links: Website | LinkedIn

location: Leiden, Netherlands

Executive Summary

Engineering leader with 12+ years of management experience, with domain experience in streaming, security, logistics.  Continued hands-on technical work, including API design, architecture, and developer experience.  Proven track record of building and scaling engineering teams through both growth, contraction, mergers, and complex technical transitions.

Core Competencies

Leadership & Scaling

Team building • Remote-first leadership • Organizational change management • Performance improvement

Technical Strategy

Cloud architecture • Data migration • DevOps • Developer Experience • Security frameworks

Key Achievements

  • 12+ years engineering management experience with progressive leadership responsibility across multiple organizations  

  • 8% attrition rate during major corporate merger (vs industry average of 45%) while delivering critical streaming platforms    

  • €1.2M annual cost reduction through modernization and team restructuring   

  • Multiple teams built from scratch with sustainable autonomous cultures    

  • High-volume platform delivery serving millions of users under extreme constraints and organizational upheaval

Vaguely | Consultancy

2025 – present | Leiden, The Netherlands

  • Mentored and coached individuals in software engineering disciplines.

  • Built Daily Sentence for the web, which helps language learners practice different forms of grammar.

  • Built AcroPlanner, an app for web, iOS, and Android that allows for convention goers to navigate schedules, spaces, and prerequisites for acrobatics for the Dutch Acrobatics Convention 2026. Stack: React Native on FastAPI, on GCS.

Warner Brothers Discovery | Senior Engineering Manager

2022 – 2024 | Amsterdam

Led engineering organization through major corporate merger while delivering Max streaming platforms. Managed 17-25 direct reports across multiple client teams in London and Amsterdam during complex organizational transition.

Connected Devices – Core Product Experience   

  • Maintained 8% team attrition during merger (vs industry average 45%) through strategic culture management  

  • Delivered Max streaming service from greenfield development with no initial specifications or backend systems  

  • Started development in September 2022 without official approval, enabling February 2023 code-complete deadline    

  • Successfully launched platform to millions of users in May 2023 with high reliability and performance   

  • Managed content discovery, search functionality, and watch experience for global streaming platform   

  • Led teams through constant scope changes, delayed designs, and distributed system constraints  

  • Planned and scheduled features for Paris 2024 Olympics integration     

  • Delivered LATAM launch features including internationalization and multitrack support for global expansion

  • Managed 20% of streaming clients across four teams (25 direct reports) during merger transition

Technologies: Solid.js/Lightning.js, TypeScript, WebGL, streaming video platforms, distributed systems

IKEA (Ingka Group Digital) | Engineering Manager

2020 – 2022 | Amsterdam

Founding manager for Omnichannel Planning team. Built prototypes to replace internal business processes with software while managing large-scale technology modernization project.

  • Achieved €1.2M annual cost reduction by transitioning from Oracle-based services to modern cloud microservices architecture   

  • Built multiple teams from scratch through combination of strategic hiring and internal transfers     

  • Served as trusted hiring manager interviewer for two additional departments      

  • Standardized hiring practices across Amsterdam engineering organization      

  • Successfully promoted senior developer to engineering manager role       

  • Led Central Warehouse Information System modernization connecting sales orders with inventory assignment through API integration

Technologies: Oracle databases, cloud migration, modern microservices architecture, API integration

Booking.com | Engineering Manager

2018 – 2019 | Amsterdam

Led multiple security and identity management teams across fraud detection, account security, and corporate IAM systems supporting global travel booking platform serving millions of transactions.

Account Security

  • Stabilized underperforming team and established sustainable operating practices   

  • Built fraud detection engine reducing account takeover incidents for high-volume booking platform    

  • Implemented first machine learning system preventing credential stuffing attacks with measurable security impact   

  • Managed 6 developers and 2 data scientists working on platform security systems   

  • Balanced operational incident remediation with product development priorities 

  • Reduced development time for new fraud engine integrations from 1 month to 3 days through API standardization   

  • Prioritized product roadmap as the product manager for 4 months during organizational transition   

Fraud Networks

  • Deployed fraud network analysis engine to production serving real-time transaction analysis   

  • Provided technical vision and guidance for Java-based microservices

IAM Corporate

  • Led Sarbanes-Oxley compliance initiatives for internal identity management   

  • Managed transition from role-based to attribute-based access control, including compliance strategy for auditors   

  • Implemented features in Golang, Typescript, and perl to support ABAC authorization system.

Technologies: Perl, Java, C#, Go, fraud detection systems, IAM platforms, high-volume transaction processing, bare-metal system

Zefr | Engineering Manager, Core Applications

2015 – 2017 | Los Angeles, California

Maintained 6 legacy Python applications while building data ingestion platform leading a team of 5.

  • Taught team Java development for platform modernization and delivered a high-performing Youtube video ingestion system   

  • Saved $30,000/month by migrating from Cassandra storage solution    

  • Introduced Support Engineering role and on-call rotation system

RDIO | Engineering Manager, Backend Features

2013 – 2014 — San Francisco, California

Led 6 developers and 1 operations manager building Django/Python services for music streaming platform.

  • Implemented scrum development methodology, improving team predictability    

  • Delivered internationalization and monetization features for global platform expansion to 13 new markets   

  • Built first-to-market music feed card interface for recently listened, artist recommendations, stations, and metadata systems for curated playlists.  Spotify would implement the same features 9 months later.    

Earlier Technical Roles

Ooyala | Release Manager (IC) — 2011 - 2012 — Mountain View, California

Guidewire | Senior Software Engineer — 2006 - 2010 — Foster City, California

Maya VIZ (General Dynamics) | Software Engineer — 2001 — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Fujitsu Network Communications | Software Engineer — 2000 — Richardson, Texas

Education

Carnegie Mellon University | Master of Design (Interaction Design) — 2005

Thesis Project: Music as a Design Element

Thesis Paper: Integration of Music and Image in Commercial Television Advertising

Carnegie Mellon University | Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) — 2000  

Minor in Japanese

Notable professional projects

Command Post of the Future — Built research prototype at Maya VIZ (General Dynamics) for military command systems

RDIO Streaming Platform — Delivered backend systems for major music streaming service redesign  

Max Streaming Service — Led client-side development for Warner Bros Discovery's flagship streaming platform  

Side projects

  • Daily Sentence

  • Acro Planner

Additional Information

Work Authorization: United States, European Union      

Languages: English (native), Chinese (B1), Japanese (B1), Dutch (A2)

Remote Work: 5+ years of remote-first management experience with distributed teams