Ji-hun Kim
Linux Kernel Developer at Samsung Electronics
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolJi-hun Kim is a Linux kernel and embedded firmware developer with 11 years of experience building device drivers and test infrastructure for Samsung Galaxy products. He has driven kernel bring-up and maintained drivers across multiple ARM SoCs (Samsung S.LSI, Qualcomm, MediaTek, Marvell) for features like USB Type-C, adaptive fast charging, LCD/MIPI, and power management. At Samsung he built a unit test environment and automation platform used by 400+ engineers to run 3000+ test cases, ensuring every Galaxy flagship is validated before shipping. He also teaches internal kernel unit test best practices, translating deep kernel expertise into scalable engineering productivity. Early firmware work on ARM Cortex-M and AVR platforms underpins his strong hardware-software debugging and root-cause analysis skills. Based in Seoul, he combines production-hardened device driver design with a track record of accelerating device bring-up and test coverage at scale.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at Kookmin University
Korean, English
Github Skills (34)
tqdm10
youtube10
pythonic10
command-line-utility10
dictionary9
iio9
dependency-free9
screen-capture9
electrical-engineering9
python8
computer-engineering8
linux8
linux-kernel8
youtube-dl7
kernel7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jihuun/web_crawlers
Jun 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1572 commits, 1512 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 6 months
jihuun/rsdic
May 2021 - Aug 2024
A eng-kor dictionary for the terminal users
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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