Soo Kim
Senior Software Engineer at Kakao Corp
Gyeonggi, South Korea
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Top SchoolSoo Kim is a Senior Software Engineer with 13+ years of experience delivering scalable web applications across frontend and backend, with a strong focus on performance, integrity, and maintainability. He thrives in architecture, prototyping, and DevOps, hands-on with Go, Java/Kotlin/Spring Boot, TypeScript/Node.js, and AWS-based deployments, often bridging REST APIs with high-throughput services. A proponent of TDD and defensive programming, he leads code quality improvements, refactoring for readability, and mentors junior developers on documentation, PR reviews, and toolchain expansion. His career includes impactful roles at Kakao Corp, SK Planet, Kakao Enterprise, Daum, and others, where he built live commerce platforms, SaaS, authentication services, and in-house FaaS and web scraping APIs, often driving architecture guides and DevOps automation. Based in Gyeonggi, South Korea, Soo holds a CS BS and MS from Korea University and combines formal training with hands-on production-scale engineering, continuously learning new languages and philosophies to stay ahead.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Korea University
English, Korean
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Github Skills (122)
countdown10
identity10
recovery10
flip10
passkey10
auth010
vuejs10
sign-in-with-apple10
countdown-timer10
user-profile10
golang10
shell10
cli10
openresty10
templating10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
philipjkim/vue2-flip-countdown
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
A countdown timer with flip effect for Vue 2.x
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 89 commits in 4 years 3 months
2-xvuefliptimercountdown
philipjkim/mlbh2h
Apr 2019 - Apr 2020
Daily MLB Fantasy Head-to-Head Point Viewer
Contributions:61 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year
crosswordreplayazerothcorehearthstonejavascript
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