Gwangchul Kim
Member Of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolGwangchul Kim is a pragmatic backend engineer with 8 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across startups and large enterprises, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI after several years improving GroupMe’s backend. He has a strong track record in distributed systems, performance optimization, and automation—reducing admin manual work by 95% at SAP and cutting service build times by 30% at Visier. His work blends applied ML for production problems (language detection and fake-news provenance models) with robust engineering practices across Java, Scala, and cloud-native stacks. Based in Vancouver, he brings research-grade rigor from UBC into production environments and a demonstrated knack for turning complex workflows into linear-time algorithms and automated pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science , Computer Science, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science , Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
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Github Skills (14)
floppy10
reboot8
disk7
benchmark4
react2
java2
language-bindings2
javascript2
microservices2
kubernetes2
scraper1
pattern-recognition1
python1
cpp1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
margoseltzer/article-scraping
May 2019 - Aug 2019
for summer 2017 news article scraping
Contributions:8 PRs, 130 pushes, 11 branches in 3 months
pythonnews-articlescrapingsummerscraper
yuubd/Truviews
May 2018 - Jan 2019
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Contributions:8 PRs, 52 pushes, 13 branches in 8 months
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