Joshua Kim
Staff Software Engineer at Ava Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Kim is a Senior Software Engineer in New York City with nine years of experience building distributed systems and p2p networking, currently contributing to AvalancheGo at Ava Labs. He has production backend experience from AWS Kinesis Data Streams where he improved client performance and release readiness for a widely used streaming library. At Ava Labs he’s focused on refactoring and optimizing database interactions and networking code in a Go-based blockchain node, demonstrating a strong tilt toward systems-level correctness and performance. Josh is an active open-source contributor, having made targeted improvements like request ID logging and Netty tuning that reveal a pragmatic attention to observability and throughput. He prefers recruiter outreach to include compensation details up front.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (17)
amazon-kinesis10
java10
aws-sdk10
javas10
go10
avalanche10
database-design10
netty9
databases9
blockchain9
sql-database9
database9
relational-databases9
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client
Oct 2019 - May 2021
Client library for Amazon Kinesis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 64 reviews, 30 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily focused on updating and maintaining the Amazon Kinesis client library, including updating dependencies like the AWS SDK. They modified the client's Netty configuration, adjusting parameters such as the initial window size and health check timeout, enhancing performance. The user also worked on preparing for releases, updating the version number, and adding features like request ID logging to the SubscribeToShard response.
amazon-kinesisjava
ava-labs/avalanchego
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Go implementation of an Avalanche node.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1130 reviews, 317 commits, 194 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily focused on refactoring and improving database interactions within the AvalancheGo project. Their work involved restructuring the `KeyValueWriter` interface and related classes to enhance data store interactions and consistency. Furthermore, the user contributed to several other code changes related to database operations, including batch processing, and improved the performance of various database functions.
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