Summary
Ji-hoon Kim is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with eight years’ experience building scalable, user-focused platforms across Korea and the U.S., currently leading architecture and performance work at Kakao Enterprise. He bridges front-end and backend concerns—React/TypeScript and Spring Boot—while driving CI/CD, modular Spring Cloud services, and state-management improvements that measurably sped up page response and maintainability. His background includes early full-stack work at LINE Plus and a formative internship on Dropbox Paper’s real-time collaboration stack, where he moved synchronization toward gRPC. Known for mentoring junior engineers and optimizing complex modules, he combines product sensitivity with hands-on systems design to deliver reliable enterprise-grade collaboration features.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Korea University
Korean, English