Bum K
Co-Founder at Loose Leaf Learning
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBum K is a full-stack software engineer and co-founder with 10 years of experience building web applications for sports, entertainment, and fintech clients. He brings strong TypeScript/JavaScript and React expertise alongside backend Node.js work, having implemented live video streaming with real-time overlays and automated authentication tooling that expanded client coverage. A pragmatic engineer, he introduced type-safe interfaces, feature flags, and responsive custom hooks to improve reliability, deployment speed, and cross-device usability. His background spans research, infrastructure automation, and analytics integration—from speeding experiments with LibRec to embedding Firebase analytics in mobile apps—demonstrating a habit of improving throughput and observability. Based in the New York City area, he balances product-focused engineering with curiosity-driven pursuits like reading and rock climbing.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Brooklyn CollegeBachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (51)
javascript10
servo10
photo-editor10
css10
open-source10
browser10
image-manipulation10
angularjs10
node-graph10
nodejs10
rust10
image-processing9
dataflow-programming9
webbrowser9
ruby9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
abumsoo/Kim_CSCI2270_FinalProject
Apr 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
bumshakabum/dotfiles
Dec 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:53 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 6 months
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