Summary
Jongha Kim is a seasoned software leader with 14 years of experience building cloud-native systems and developer teams across startups and enterprise projects. Currently a Senior Manager at DRB, he previously scaled engineering as CTO of Sellernote—growing the product from initial launch to supporting hundreds of millions in revenue through architecture, CI/CD, SRE and hiring. He is a polyglot engineer comfortable across Javascript/Typescript (Node, React), Python, and Go, with hands-on cloud experience on AWS, GCP and Azure. His background includes low-level tooling for static code analysis in C++ and localization work for MDN Web Docs, where he synchronized and modernized Korean JavaScript documentation. Known for establishing development processes—testing, code review, CI/CD—and for shipping both APIs and front-end reworks, he blends pragmatic engineering with product-driven leadership. Based in Kazan with roots in South Korea, he pairs deep technical breadth with a proven track record of turning resource-constrained teams into stable, scalable engineering organizations.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Korean, English