James Paik
Lead Software Engineer at Klaviyo
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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SeniorJames Paik is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, user-focused web applications and shipping production systems at Klaviyo and prior startups. He blends full-stack expertise—from Vue/Nuxt and TypeScript front ends to .NET Core, Node.js back ends and SQL/Postgres databases—with hands-on CI/CD and cloud deployments on GCP, DO, and AWS. James has led teams through UI/UX redesigns, automated testing (Cypress), and performance-driven architecture that scaled a marketplace from tens to thousands of concurrent users. Comfortable coordinating with product and marketing, he also builds demo flows and dynamic SEO/sitemaps to drive acquisition, reflecting a pragmatic focus on both developer experience and business outcomes. Based in the NYC metro area, he continuously experiments with new technologies to expand his toolkit and keep products elegant and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English, Korean, Italian
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Github Skills (27)
reservation-system10
gpa9
codeception9
datatable9
laravel9
php9
codeigniter9
bus8
calculator8
gsutil6
kotlin6
jquery6
gcloud6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jpaik/gpaforme
Apr 2016 - Feb 2021
Real time, store saving GPA Calculator
Contributions:126 commits, 14 PRs, 66 pushes in 4 years 10 months
reactjavascriptgpa-calculatorcalculatorgpa
cosinic/cosinic-discord-bot
Oct 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:23 PRs, 130 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 8 months
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