Junho Kim
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJunho Kim is a Software Development Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native backend systems, currently driving payment and reconciliation services at Amazon from Vancouver. He designs high-throughput distributed pipelines and Kotlin-based AWS services that cut manual work by 120+ person-hours monthly, improved payment accuracy to 99.9%, and reduced approval times by days. Earlier roles at LINE and TmaxSoft honed his skills in asynchronous messaging, cloud IaaS/PaaS, and cost-efficient database migrations that halved operational costs. An active contributor to Armeria, Junho has enhanced core framework features and documentation, showing a penchant for improving developer ergonomics in popular microservice tooling. He combines rigorous academic training from KAIST with hands-on production experience in distributed systems and ETL at TB scale, often surfacing practical fixes that improve observability and error handling.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, 컴퓨터 공학, Bachelor's degree, 컴퓨터 공학 at Soongsil UniversityMaster's degree, 컴퓨터 공학, Master's degree, 컴퓨터 공학 at 한국과학기술원(KAIST)
Korean, English, Japanese, French
Github Skills (9)
javas10
microservices-application10
microservices10
java10
grpc9
rpc9
http9
testing8
documentation8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
line/armeria
Jun 2019 - Jun 2021
Your go-to microservice framework for any situation, from the creator of Netty et al. You can build any type of microservice leveraging your favorite technologies, including gRPC, Thrift, Kotlin, Retrofit, Reactive Streams, Spring Boot and Dropwizard.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 8 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Junho primarily contributed to the Armeria framework's core functionality and documentation. Their work included adding new features, such as `MediaTypeNames` and `BlockingTaskExecutorBuilder`, and enhancing existing components like the `RequestContextExporter`. In addition, the user addressed documentation issues to improve usability and understanding of the framework, and also modified exception handling and fixed request ID exporting. The user's contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the framework's features.
rpcmicro-frameworkretrofitprotobuftype-of
AutoDo/AutoDo
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:180 commits, 73 PRs, 66 pushes in 2 months
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