Brian Kim
Software Engineer II at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Kim is a Software Engineer II at Meta with 14 years of hands-on experience focused on distributed systems and cloud computing, based in San Francisco. He has moved from research roles at UC Berkeley and the RISE Lab into core infrastructure work at Meta, blending academic rigor with production-grade engineering. His contributions to open-source testing tools—such as refactoring and hardening php-vcr to improve replay accuracy and legacy cassette compatibility—reflect a strong emphasis on reliability and testability. Brian’s background includes leadership in engineering at a fintech startup, network and security experience in a military context, and practical cloud internship work, giving him a rare mix of systems, networking, and operational discipline. He actively seeks architectures that scale for large workloads and builds tooling that makes complex systems easier to operate.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Statistics, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Statistics at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Chadwick International School
Spanish, English, Korean
Github Skills (9)
php10
vcr10
api-testing10
phpunit10
test-automation10
webservice9
refactor9
testing9
refactoring9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
php-vcr/php-vcr
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Record your test suite's HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for fast, deterministic, accurate tests.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Brian focused on improving the functionality and testability of the `php-vcr/php-vcr` project, a tool for recording and replaying HTTP interactions. Their primary contributions involved refactoring the Videorecorder and Cassette classes to support indexed requests and improve the handling of identical requests. The user also added unit tests, specifically addressing legacy cassette compatibility and ensuring correct playback behavior, thereby improving test coverage and reliability. These changes enhanced the project's core features and made it more robust.
guzzle-testapi-testingtesting-toolssoap-testtest-webservices
bwood/ucberkeley_envconf-7
Jul 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:7 releases, 22 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 9 months
phpdrupalucbdrupal-7
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