Jinsuck Kim
Staff Software Engineer at IMVU
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJinsuck Kim is a Staff Software Engineer in the Bay Area with 13 years of experience designing and building Android, PC client, and web-based 3D social games and applications. He combines a deep academic foundation—a Ph.D. in Computer Science plus aerospace engineering degrees—with practical engineering leadership at IMVU and prior senior roles in game studios. His work spans systems-level C++ and JavaScript interoperability, evidenced by contributions to the high-profile emscripten project improving memory management and Embind bindings for WebAssembly. Known for bridging research-grade numerical/control thinking with product-focused development, he excels at solving complex real-time and cross-platform integration challenges. Based in San Francisco, he brings a rare mix of robotics/control theory background and hands-on game-engine and web-assembly expertise.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Aerospace Engineering, B.S., Aerospace Engineering at Inha UniversityM.S., Aerospace Engineering, M.S., Aerospace Engineering at Purdue UniversityPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Texas A&M University
English, Korean
Github Skills (8)
memory-management10
emscripten10
blazor-webassembly10
javascript10
c-language10
webassembly10
cprogramming-language10
llvm9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
emscripten-core/emscripten
Nov 2012 - Apr 2013
Emscripten: An LLVM-to-WebAssembly Compiler
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jinsuck primarily contributed to the Emscripten project by modifying core C++ and JavaScript files related to the Embind system. Their work involved enhancing the `emval` and `bind` functionalities, enabling string retrieval, interface wrapper construction, and the inclusion of global JavaScript method execution. They also upgraded the libcxx library, fixed a memory leak in `weak_ptr`, and added support for null values in `val`, indicating a focus on refining the project's memory management, JavaScript interoperability, and API functionality.
compileremscriptenllvmwebassemblywasm
jinsuck/youtubegecko
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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