Allen Kim
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllen 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–HawaiiBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, Korean
Github Skills (40)
application10
chatgpt10
ai-agent10
cloud-db10
python10
azure-sdk10
memory-management10
vector-database10
java10
llm10
media10
azure-services10
ai10
fine-tuning10
state-management10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
allenkim0129/azure-sdk-for-python
Sep 2024 - Jan 2026
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Python. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/python/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-python.
Contributions:1 PR, 213 pushes, 45 branches in 1 year 4 months
microsoft/multiclouddb-sdk-for-java
Apr 2026 - Jun 2026
A portable database SDK that lets you write CRUD and query logic once and run it against a selection of databases provided by multi-cloud dbs, and switch providers by changing a single properties file, with zero code changes.
Contributions:14 reviews, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 month
cloud-dbcruddatabasedatabasesportable-database
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