Ji Kim
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJi Kim is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable ML-driven products and infrastructure, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic after a multi-role tenure at Google. At Google he led improvements across YouTube Ads, Google Photos, and Assistant—driving a 20% uplift in memories coverage while cutting dislike rates and reducing infra costs 4x for a 9+ trillion photo backfill. He has hands-on experience fine-tuning state-of-the-art LLMs and deploying CNN-based solutions for game and neural rendering research, and built tooling to make Assistant debugging and large-scale evaluations repeatable. Recognized for enforcing age-appropriate policies and enabling new kids-focused monetization on YouTube, he blends product impact with rigorous ML engineering. A Cornell B.S./M.Eng. in Computer Science, Ji also has a strong internship pedigree across Microsoft, Amazon, and others that shaped his backend and infrastructure instincts. Colleagues find him equally comfortable iterating on model evaluations and simplifying complex systems to speed delivery and reduce cost.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyMasters of Engineering, Computer Science, Masters of Engineering, Computer Science at Cornell University
Korean, English
Github Skills (37)
sentence10
electra9
similarity9
sentence-similarity9
roberta9
nlp8
natural-language-processing8
word-embeddings8
multilingual8
sentence-embeddings8
bert6
transformers6
spade4
normalization4
categorical4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cbora/predictionio-template-java-universal-recommender
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:51 commits, 22 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 months
jk2227/chrome-extension
Nov 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 release, 63 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 2 months
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