Chris Kim
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Kim is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building full-stack web applications, scalable backend APIs, and distributed systems, currently driving engineering work at Shopify. He has a strong security and service-mesh background from his time at HashiCorp contributing to Consul—making notable open-source improvements to proxy configuration, namespaces, and Vault integration—and brings solid Go, networking, and API design skills. Comfortable leading projects from design to production, Chris pairs product-minded thinking with attention to developer experience, often improving documentation, test stability, and tooling in addition to shipping features. With a foundation in international development and economics from LSE and University of Toronto, he combines technical depth with a broader systems perspective that helps him navigate complex, cross-functional problems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
London School of Economics and Political ScienceBachelor’s Degree, International Relations and Economics, Bachelor’s Degree, International Relations and Economics at University of Toronto - University of Trinity College
French, Korean, English
Github Skills (14)
service-mesh10
consul10
web-proxy10
proxy10
go10
service-discovery10
networking10
api-design10
proxy-pac10
http-proxy10
testing9
devops9
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1115 reviews, 346 commits, 551 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris made several contributions focused on enhancing the Consul agent, particularly concerning proxy configurations and internal API. Their work involved updating proxy upstreams to inherit namespaces and ensuring correct handling of enterprise features. The user demonstrated skills in Go, networking, and API design, contributing to key areas like service mesh and network infrastructure management. They also worked on improving test coverage.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
kisunji/typecover
May 2021 - Mar 2022
Go linter to check if a code block contains references to all exported members of a struct or interface
Contributions:10 releases, 3 reviews, 2 PRs in 10 months
golanglinterlintgo-lintermembers
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