Summary
Allen Kim is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance systems across cloud and GPU-accelerated databases, currently contributing to the Cosmos DB SDK at Microsoft. He brings deep C++ and CUDA expertise from roles at Kinetica and Technica where he implemented 100+ geospatial functions and parallel algorithms, and has production experience in large-scale services at AWS, Meta, Google, and Intuit. Skilled in Python, Java, and shell scripting, he bridges research-grade algorithm development with pragmatic engineering for scalable storage and data platforms. Based in Issaquah, Washington, he pairs a CS degree from BYU with a track record of shipping performance-critical features and debugging complex multithreaded GPU code—skills that often surface behind-the-scenes in latency-sensitive systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University–Hawaii
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, Korean