Janet Kim
Senior HRI UX Designer at Amazon Lab126
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJanet Kim is a Senior HRI UX Designer in San Francisco with 10 years of experience designing human-centered products at the intersection of robotics, voice, and web applications. She currently leads human–robot interaction, conversational, visual, and companion app design for Amazon’s Astro at Lab126, and previously shaped Alexa, Redshift, and enterprise product experiences across Amazon and Eventbrite. Her background in art, music, and fashion informs a strong visual sensibility and a penchant for elegant solutions to complex interaction problems. Janet pairs research-driven product strategy with hands-on execution—she’s taught design thinking at Capital One and led payouts and reporting UX at Eventbrite. She also contributes to backend parsing tools on GitHub, adding custom parsers and extraction logic for news sites, which underscores a practical comfort with data-driven engineering challenges. Colleagues describe her work as thoughtful, craft-focused, and unusually cross-disciplinary for a UX designer.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Visual and Environmental Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University
French, Korean
Github Skills (6)
nodejs10
parser10
parsing10
parse10
webscraping9
javascript8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
postlight/parser
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
📜 Extract meaningful content from the chaos of a web page
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Janet primarily contributed to custom parsers and data extraction logic for various news websites. Their work involved implementing features to extract meaningful content and address specific issues, like time zone discrepancies. The user demonstrated a focus on handling data from diverse online sources, indicating familiarity with back-end development principles. Their contributions included adding new parsers for several websites and refining the existing ones.
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janetleekim/janetleekim.github.io
Dec 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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