Allen Kim
Freelance Developer at Self-employed
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllen Kim is a software engineer and Master's student in Computer and Information Sciences based in the Atlanta metropolitan area with seven years of practical experience and ongoing freelance work. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Excalidraw, focusing on front-end UI reliability—fixing complex rendering and transform bugs for flipping, resizing, and bound text scaling. Comfortable across client-facing interfaces and interactive elements, he brings a pragmatic eye for user experience and robust component behavior. Combining academic study at Kennesaw State and hands-on freelance projects, he balances research-driven learning with real-world delivery. Often sought for debugging thorny UI edge cases, he translates subtle visual problems into maintainable code fixes.
7 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES, Master of Science - MS, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES at Kennesaw State UniversityBachelor's of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor's of Computer Science, Computer Science at Clayton State University
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
canvas9
diagram8
ui-design8
drawing7
collaboration7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
excalidraw/excalidraw
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 2 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Allen primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Excalidraw project, focusing on the user interface and interactive elements. Their work involved fixing resizing issues for multiple elements, particularly related to flipping and bound text scaling. The user also addressed bugs related to the flipping of images and text, ensuring the correct display and behavior of these elements after transformations. Their commits demonstrate expertise in manipulating UI components and resolving related rendering issues.
diagramsdrawnhand-drawnproductivitycollaboration
alex-kim-dev/vite-react-template
Feb 2022 - Nov 2024
Vite + React + Typescript template with testing, linters and CI
Contributions:37 PRs, 71 pushes, 34 branches in 2 years 8 months
reacttemplatelintingvitevite-template
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