Ik Kim
Lead Software Engineer at Capital One
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIk Kim is a lead software engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems at Capital One, where he progressed from intern to lead across roles focused on engineering excellence and scalable design. He specializes in AWS-powered architectures and a diverse set of programming languages, driving technical decisions that balance robustness, maintainability, and delivery speed. Known for mentoring junior engineers, he cultivates high-quality code and collaborative teams that raise engineering standards across projects. Early work included mobile and real-time data systems—shipping an iOS podcast app via MVP architecture and automating MySQL-to-distributed-storage pipelines—showing his comfort across platforms and data flows. Based in Atlanta, he combines hands-on implementation with strategic leadership to turn complex requirements into reliable production services.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Korean, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
sink9
producer9
daemon9
maxwell8
avro8
json8
kafka-producer7
scala7
cdc7
kafka6
mysql6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gordonyli/campus_buy
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
gordonyli/campus_buy_official
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 20 days
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