Carl Kim
Software Engineer at Gusto
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolCarl Kim is a Full-stack Software Engineer with 11 years of experience who transitioned from automotive industry management into building web products in the Bay Area and now New York. He has extensive hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails and React, and has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Guideline from Software Engineer to Principal, playing a founding-team role in early product architecture and culture. He helped scale Guideline from inception through its acquisition by Gusto and now contributes at Gusto on payroll and benefits platform work. Carl blends product-minded engineering with leadership—mentoring teams, owning system design, and shipping reliable, user-focused features. He trained at App Academy after earning a bachelor's from UC San Diego, a background that pairs formal technical study with intensive bootcamp practice. Outside work he’s drawn to roles that let him bridge product, people, and code—turning domain knowledge into pragmatic, scalable systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at App Academy
English, Korean, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
feature-driven10
form-objects10
rake10
encapsulation10
activemodel9
boilerplate8
state-machine8
ruby8
validation8
coercion8
state-management6
java6
testing4
factories4
bus4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cjhkim/roomies
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:98 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 month
cjhkim/Bite-Box
Jun 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:70 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 1 year 2 months
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