Junik Kim
Software Engineer at Cash App
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJunik Kim is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building products at high-growth and enterprise companies, currently contributing to Cash App after roles at Square and Microsoft. Trained in computer engineering at UIUC, Junik has moved between fintech and healthcare domains, demonstrating adaptability across regulated and consumer-facing systems. He has a track record of joining fast-moving teams and shipping reliable features in complex codebases, drawing on internships at John Deere and Crowe that grounded his practical engineering instincts. Based in Chicago, he pairs strong systems knowledge with a pragmatic focus on product impact and cross-functional collaboration. A detail that often goes unnoticed: his career path shows deliberate lateral moves that broaden domain expertise rather than following a single-stack specialization.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Korean
Github Skills (27)
face-detection10
async9
nodejs9
typescript8
javascript8
image-comparison8
line-segment7
synthetic7
mnist7
opencv7
web-application6
vue5
vue-component5
text-recognition5
imagenet4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
whwnsdlr1/image-diff
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
client web application to compare multiple images. online demo -
Contributions:1 release, 21 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
image-diffimage-comparisonweb-applicationmultiple-imageviewweb-client
whwnsdlr1/vue-image-diff
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
vue component for multiple image comparison
Contributions:2 releases, 12 commits, 2 PRs in 8 months
image-diffcomparisonimage-comparisonvuevue-component
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