Gary Kim
Linux Engineer at Withheld Financial Institution
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Kim is a Linux engineer based in New York with seven years of hands-on experience building and operating self-hosted network services and infrastructure. He combines systems-level Linux expertise with full-stack development skills, contributing to prominent open-source projects like rclone and Nextcloud—adding cloud storage protocols, Prometheus metrics, and federation features. As former Director of microLab at Cooper Union he ran campus server, networking, and compute platforms, and he brings practical industry exposure from internships and roles at AuriStor and Goldman Sachs. Passionate about firmware and RTOS side projects, he’s equally at home debugging TLS connections and polishing front-end UI behavior, demonstrating a rare mix of backend protocol work and user-facing refinements.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Singapore American School
Github Skills (50)
git10
javascript10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
css10
open-source10
ftp10
php10
go10
api10
federation10
front-end-development10
vue10
cloud-storage10
golang10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
42wim/matterbridge
Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API (mattermost not required!)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 11 commits, 11 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Gary Kim primarily focused on adding and improving Nextcloud Talk integration within the matterbridge project. His commits demonstrate the implementation of support for Nextcloud Talk functionality, including Nextcloud Talk support and file downloads. He worked on modifying the go-nc-talk library to address connection failures and incorporate features such as message deletion and separate display names. His work involved creating new features, updating the go-nc-talk dependency, and ensuring compatibility within the matterbridge ecosystem.
xmppwhatsappdiscordbotssh
rclone/rclone
Apr 2019 - Jun 2020
"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 15 PRs, 70 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Gary primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the rclone project, specifically focusing on adding support for various cloud storage services and protocols. Their commits demonstrate the implementation of SFTP, Mega, and FTP features, including TLS support, and also involved updates to the vendor dependencies. They also added Prometheus metrics and addressed issues related to case-insensitive file moves.
googlefile-storageyandexonedrivestorage
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