Ka Shum
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolKa Shum is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale web products and GenAI features at LinkedIn, focused on turning LLMs into measurable business impact for sales teams. He led the launch of Account IQ—the Sales Navigator team’s first GenAI feature—helping drive double-digit growth in weekly active users and seeding broader AI adoption. Ka combines product-focused architecture with hands-on engineering, having migrated a 200k+ LOC codebase to TypeScript for a 3M+ daily user surface and shipped integrations like CRM workflows, Smart Links, and TeamLink used by tens of thousands daily. He champions developer productivity through cross-team tooling, advanced ESLint rules, and automation to keep large codebases healthy. Based in Sunnyvale and educated at HKUST with exchange work at KAIST, he blends international perspective with practical execution across React, Node.js, Ember, GenAI, and CRM APIs. Outside work he signs his GitHub “Invent the future today,” reflecting a pragmatic optimism for building useful, scalable AI-first products.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Programme Computer Science Industrial Design, Exchange Programme Computer Science Industrial Design at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese, Chinese
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Github Skills (115)
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xapi9
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kotlin9
api-documentation9
stock-data9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alankyshum/COMP4321---Search-Engine-Project
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:88 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 months
MakersMaker/lecture-page
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 days
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