Jason Kim
Founder And CTO at Verve Market
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Kim is a founder and CTO with 11 years of experience building AI infrastructure and distributed systems, currently leading Verve Market from San Francisco. He previously architected serverless AI inference and distributed filesystem work at Databricks and cut his teeth as an early engineer at Snackpass and a revenue-driving lead at Thumbtack where his initiatives measurably improved payments reliability and marketplace revenue. Comfortable across Linux, Kubernetes, and filesystems, he blends deep systems engineering with product-focused delivery and a track record of shipping high-impact infrastructure and full-stack features. His background includes founding a development shop and study at Yale and Cambridge, reflecting both entrepreneurial grit and academic breadth. Notably, he moves easily between low-level system design and pragmatic product metrics—optimizing for reliability, scalability, and measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of CambridgeBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Yale University
Korean
Github Skills (30)
azure-data-lake8
azure-storage8
browser7
s3-bucket7
high-performance6
azure-blob-storage6
amazon-s36
amazon6
proxy6
javascript6
filesystem6
fuse6
golang5
aws-s35
cloud-storage5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jk5228/jk5228.github.io
May 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:14 PRs, 20 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 3 months
gengn/mofopo
Mar 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 6 years 1 month
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