Summary
Jihoon Kim is an Agile Coach and backend engineer with 10 years of experience building CI/CD and mobile build systems at scale, most recently leading developer productivity and delivery practices at Kakao in Seoul. He designed and implemented an in-house mobile CI/CD platform used by 4,000+ users, combining Kotlin/Spring Boot, Docker, Jenkins and native Android/iOS toolchains to streamline artifact delivery and testing. Comfortable both coding and facilitating, he pairs hands-on system architecture and modeling with strengths in communication, team facilitation, and restoring broken processes. His technical breadth spans Kotlin, Java, Node.js and legacy PHP systems, and he focuses on software quality, efficient workflows, and measurable developer experience improvements. Gallup strengths like Activator, Responsibility and Focus drive his pragmatic, outcomes-oriented coaching style that helps teams move from ideas to shippable pipelines. He brings a pragmatic mix of engineering discipline and people-first leadership, proven in large-scale internal products and cross-functional collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Engineering at 건국대학교