Hyang-ah Kim
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolHyang-ah Kim is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in backend systems, DevOps, and performance tooling, currently working at Google in New York. She has deep expertise in the Go ecosystem, contributing to high-profile projects like the Go language itself, pkgsite, pprof, Delve, and vscode-go, with hands-on work ranging from vulnerability tooling and documentation generation to debugger heuristics and cross-platform build fixes. Her contributions show a pragmatic focus on robustness—refactoring vuln databases, improving profiling output, and stabilizing tests and build pipelines for new platforms. She blends systems-level understanding with developer experience improvements, for example enabling platform-targeted vulnerability analysis and adding Docker-based local testing for extension development. A PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon and an MS from KAIST underpin her rigorous approach to complex tooling and infrastructure problems. Colleagues rely on her for subtle fixes that improve observability and developer workflows across large, distributed codebases.
11 years of coding experience
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (57)
go-modules10
debugging10
tooling10
debug10
docker10
mobile-development10
vulnerability10
testing10
build-system10
document-generation10
go-testing10
development-tools10
android-development10
dockers10
cicd10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
golang/mobile
Oct 2014 - Oct 2022
[mirror] Go on Mobile
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:200 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Hyang-ah primarily contributed to the `golang/mobile` repository, focusing on Android-related tasks. They updated and modified Java and Go files related to the binding process, generating and adjusting code for interacting with the Android OS. Their work included adding and updating code in java/testpkg, and other files related to testing and creating Android applications using the go mobile framework.
golangiosandroid
go-delve/delve
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
Delve is a debugger for the Go programming language.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:212 reviews, 31 commits, 42 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Hyang-ah primarily contributed to the Delve debugger's core functionality and build processes. Their work included fixing race conditions in tests, updating dependencies and vendored packages, and improving the heuristics of the debugger's location specifications. Furthermore, the user implemented features supporting launching the debugger without debug functionality ("noDebug") and added improvements for DAP (Debug Adaptor Protocol) server, including the handling of SetVariable requests, addition of clipboard support, and various cosmetic changes to the test environment and output.
golangdelveprogramming-languagedebuggergo
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