Hyunjin Kim
Localization Engineer
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHyunjin Kim is a Localization Engineer based in California with a decade of experience bridging front-end development and multilingual product workflows. She has built user-facing UI and semantic search features with Next.js and the OpenAI API, while also designing CLDR-based internationalization pipelines and managing Korean/Japanese localization for game and SaaS products. Her background as a freelance translator and interpreter for major clients like Riot Games and Samsung informs a keen attention to terminology, tone, and QA processes that improve global user experience. Hyunjin pairs data-driven product analysis—improving multilingual search relevance and evaluation metrics—with hands-on implementation, making her equally comfortable refining prompt logic or coordinating large-scale linguistic evaluations. A bilingual specialist trained in consecutive interpretation, she uniquely blends linguistic rigor with practical engineering to scale localization efficiently.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Consecutive Interpretation and Translation, Language Interpretation and Translation, Master of Consecutive Interpretation and Translation, Language Interpretation and Translation at Hankuk University of Foreign StudiesBachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature, General, Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature, General at Korea University
Korean, English
Github Skills (14)
sdk7
python5
java4
django-framework2
spring-boot2
django2
data-api1
javascript1
spring1
api1
spring-security1
nodejs1
dummy-data1
spring-boot-starter1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
khjzzm/khjzzm
Jun 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:129 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
khjzzm/kimzzang-frontend
Jan 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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