John Kim
Product Design Lead at astrsk.ai
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Kim is a Product Design Lead with nine years of experience crafting user-first digital experiences across major tech companies, startups, and his own successful Kickstarter-backed business. With an MFA in Interaction Design from the School of Visual Arts and a BFA from Carnegie Mellon, he bridges industrial craft and digital UX to drive products from ideation to polished, scalable design systems. He has led UX work at Google—improving admin workflows, design systems, and Pixel device experiences—and recently launched an AI role-play platform as design lead at astrsk.ai. Equally at home in product strategy and hands-on execution, he pairs leadership-level roadmap work with detailed component and interaction design. Beyond product design, he contributes to open-source security tooling as a backend/API developer on Google’s Tsunami security scanner, bringing practical security and engineering insight into his design decisions. He’s known for turning exploratory concepts (WYSIWYG customization, AI-driven suggestions) into tangible product features that improve discoverability and long-term platform consistency.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Interaction Design, Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Interaction Design at School of Visual ArtsBachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Industrial and Product Design at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Korean, Japanese
Github Skills (9)
javas10
api10
apidoc10
protobuf10
java10
grpc10
protocol-buffers10
security-scan9
netty7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
google/tsunami-security-scanner
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Tsunami is a general purpose network security scanner with an extensible plugin system for detecting high severity vulnerabilities with high confidence.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:27 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the development of the Tsunami security scanner's plugin infrastructure. They added protocol buffer definitions for plugin representations, RPC services, and related data structures. The user then implemented a gRPC client handler for the PluginService, enabling communication with language-specific servers. Furthermore, they integrated remote vulnerability detection capabilities, adding features that allow the Java client to communicate with and execute remote plugins on language servers.
plugin-systemsecurity-scanneradobe-experience-managersecurity-toolsvulnerabilities
Jkim-Hack/Bullet_Hell
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
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