Gihwan Kim
Software Engineer at LINE Plus Corp
Seongnam-si, South Korea
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolGihwan Kim is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building reliable, extensible backend systems at LINE Plus, where he architects the Channel API gateway and an event pipeline platform on top of Armeria. He contributes to the widely used Armeria microservice framework—adding nuanced circuit-breaker lifecycle hooks and expanding annotation support for java.time types—demonstrating attention to API ergonomics and framework maintainability. Comfortable with Kotlin coroutines and reactive patterns, he has implemented extensible routing, plugin-driven behaviors, and Git-managed JSON-schema event typing to ensure type-safe, production-grade integrations. Active on GitHub, he combines practical production work with open-source contributions and a master’s background in computer engineering from Pusan National University.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Pusan National University
Github Skills (13)
javas10
api10
apidoc10
java10
annotations9
annotation-processing9
circuit-breaker9
rpc8
http8
grpc8
thrift8
microservices-application7
microservices7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
line/armeria
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Your go-to microservice framework for any situation, from the creator of Netty et al. You can build any type of microservice leveraging your favorite technologies, including gRPC, Thrift, Kotlin, Retrofit, Reactive Streams, Spring Boot and Dropwizard.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 reviews, 22 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Gihwan's primary contribution focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the Armeria framework, specifically within the circuit breaker and annotation processing components. They added an `onInitialized()` method to the `CircuitBreakerListener` to distinguish initialization from state changes. The user also extended the `@Param` annotation to support `java.time.Period` and other `java.time` classes, indicating a focus on improving the framework's flexibility and API usability. Furthermore, the user addressed parsing issues related to URLs with authority.
rpcmicro-frameworkretrofitprotobuftype-of
ghkim3221/mindmapjs
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
Mindmap Application with Node.js and D3.js
Contributions:1 release, 36 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 9 months
node-jsmindmapd3-js
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