James Kim
Head Of Kakao Map at Kakao Corp
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Kim is a product and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building regulated, large-scale platforms — currently heading product and business strategy for Kakao Map in Seoul. He has a track record of translating regulatory, technical, and user requirements into scalable systems across finance, real estate, and healthcare, having led identity, privacy, and core platform efforts at Toss and launched Korea’s first DABS platform at Kasa. Comfortable at the intersection of product, data, and policy, he designs cross-functional organizations and roadmaps that balance compliance, monetization, and user value. His PhD-level background in medical informatics and early work on semantic web and open data give him a rare lens for connecting real-world data, ontology-driven design, and social experiences in location services. An active contributor to open data documentation, he also brings hands-on startup experience building location-based social apps and CI/CD pipelines, blending craft, curiosity, and disciplined execution.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Medical Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Medical Informatics at Seoul National UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Software Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Software Science at Sangmyung UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Yonsei University
English, Korean, Japanese
Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
okfn/opendatahandbook
Jul 2015 - Nov 2016
Open Data Handbook v2
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:205 commits, 50 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on improving the documentation and content of the Open Data Handbook. Their contributions included fixing typos, updating outdated information, tidying up existing pages, and standardizing formatting. They also addressed the glossary by applying a markdown filter and fixing links. Additionally, the user made edits to the contributing guidelines and translated the guide content.
linked-open-dataopen-datahandbookdigital-humanities
jgkim/opendatahandbook
Jul 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:236 pushes, 12 branches in 3 months
open-datahandbook
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