Esther Kim
Vendor Strategy Manager
Buford, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEsther Kim is a Vendor Strategy Manager at Google with seven years of supply chain, vendor, and program management experience across tech and automotive industries. She holds an MBA focused on Operations and Project Management and is PMP®-aligned, blending strategic vendor negotiations with hands-on project delivery. Prior roles at Flexport and Mercedes-Benz USA show expertise in global operations, network compliance, and sales intelligence, driving visibility and process improvements across complex networks. Esther also brings practical front-end and automation experience from contributing to the high-profile ampproject/amphtml repository, where she added testing automation, ESLint rules, and modernized integration tests. Based in Buford, Georgia, she combines cross-functional leadership with a developer’s attention to detail—often bridging vendor strategy with technical execution to reduce risk and accelerate delivery. Colleagues rely on her to translate operational complexity into measurable vendor outcomes.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Operations and Project Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Operations and Project Management at Southern New Hampshire UniversityCalifornia State University, SacramentoCertificate, Project Management, Certificate, Project Management at Florida Atlantic University
English, Korean
Github Skills (19)
e2e-testing10
puppeteer10
javascript10
selenium10
testing10
e2e-test10
css10
web-components10
selenium-ide10
build-automation10
e2e10
html10
test-integration10
integration-testing10
eslint9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ampproject/amphtml
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
The AMP web component framework.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:360 reviews, 256 commits, 523 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Esther primarily focused on improving the AMP HTML framework by implementing new features and fixing bugs. Their contributions included moving the installation of Percy to the visual-diff task, creating and updating ESLint rules, and updating integration tests to use the latest browser versions. They also worked on the development of end-to-end tests and established a watch mode, demonstrating an interest in both front-end development and automation.
web-componentscomponent-frameworkframeworkwebcomponentsweb-component
ampproject/cdn-configuration
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Configuration settings for AMP Project CDNs
Contributions:137 reviews, 72 commits, 176 PRs in 1 year 1 month
ampsettingsterraform
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