Ja-on Kim
SDE II at Amazon
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJa-on Kim is an SDE II at Amazon with 12 years of engineering experience building scalable web services and front-end integrations. He has progressed from hardware-focused engineering into full-stack software roles, leading teams at GlobalLogic on Google Workspace and Actions on Google using Python, Node.js, React/Vue and legacy AngularJS. At Lob he delivered measurable performance wins—introducing batch endpoints and redesigning services to boost throughput and cut network traffic dramatically—demonstrating a pragmatic focus on production impact. He favors mentorship and stepping into leadership to amplify team knowledge and ship reliable systems, with hands-on experience in zero-downtime migrations and test-refactoring to speed CI. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and trained as a mechanical engineer at the University of Pennsylvania, he brings cross-disciplinary problem-solving and hardware-aware sensibilities to software architecture. Colleagues can expect a detail-oriented engineer who pairs measurable optimization with an eye for operational robustness.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
English, Korean
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
textmate9
wrapper9
translation7
reason-react7
rest-api7
sorting6
api6
php6
translate6
highlight6
react5
graphql5
swagger5
bucklescript4
typescript4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JsonKim/purescript-by-example
Feb 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
JsonKim/monkey-lang-in-ocaml
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:85 pushes, 1 branch, 4 issues in 4 months
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