Heemin Kim
Software Engineering Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHeemin Kim is a software engineering manager in Seattle with 11 years of experience designing and shipping distributed systems, search relevance, and high-performance in-memory services. Currently leading OpenSearch development at AWS, he progressed through hands-on roles across ElastiCache/MemoryDB for Redis and mobile metrics platforms, giving him deep operational and performance tuning expertise. Heemin blends product-focused engineering with open-source stewardship as an active contributor to the OpenSearch project. Known for translating complex search and caching challenges into scalable production systems, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to team leadership and reliability. His background spans consumer-facing backends in Korea to large-scale cloud services at AWS, reflecting both international perspective and end-to-end system ownership.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Program, Computer Science and Engineering, Exchange Program, Computer Science and Engineering at University of BirminghamBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Engineering at 포항공과대학교 / Pohang University of Science and Technology
English, Korean
Github Skills (91)
similarity-search10
opensearch10
dashboard10
nearest-neighbors10
regression10
masking10
maven10
elasticsearch10
neighbors10
backend10
clustering10
nosql10
solr10
linear-regression10
lucene10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
heemin32/k-NN
Oct 2022 - Jan 2025
🆕 Find the k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) for your vector data
Contributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 2 PRs in 2 years 3 months
neighborsapproximate-nearest-neighbor-searchnearestvectorsk-nearest-neighbors
heemin32/OpenSearch
Aug 2022 - Nov 2024
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Contributions:12 PRs, 85 pushes, 55 branches in 2 years 2 months
restfulsearch-engineelasticsearchsearchdistributed
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