Jihoon Kim
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJihoon Kim is a software engineer with nine years of experience who blends AI research and production engineering to build practical, scalable systems. Currently working on EC2 Nitro at AWS, he brings deep interest and hands-on experience in NLP, LLMs, and retrieval-augmented generation from roles across academia and industry, including research labs at Johns Hopkins and an AI infrastructure internship at Shield AI. His background spans ML internships at HP, cognitive science research, and open-source contributions, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on human-centered AI and system reliability. Trained with dual CS and cognitive science degrees from Johns Hopkins and an MEng from Cornell, he excels at connecting cutting-edge models to workflow automation in regulated domains like finance. Colleagues describe him as forward-thinking and pragmatic—someone who moves prototypes toward production while keeping user cognition and safety in view.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Valley Christian Schools (San Jose)Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Cornell UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Cornell Tech
Github Skills (41)
spring-mvc9
spring-api9
jpa8
querydsl8
spring8
spring-boot8
expressjs8
nlp7
java7
api7
mongodb7
foundation-models6
react6
nodejs6
vision-and-language6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
skygl/Devlog
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
메타블로그 서비스 Devlog의 Node.js express 백엔드 서버입니다.
Contributions:155 commits, 6 PRs, 37 pushes in 11 months
mysqlexpressjsnode-jsexpressdevlog
skygl/KoBERT-NER
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 51 pushes, 3 branches in 16 days
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