Kevin Kim
Software Engineer at Morningstar
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Kim is a software engineer with nine years of cross-disciplinary experience building consumer and enterprise-grade applications, currently architecting investment research platforms at Morningstar. He combines backend and mobile expertise—having shipped popular iOS/Android apps at Grinnell AppDev and co-founded Dearplants, an iOS app with 2,000+ active users—bringing product-minded engineering to each role. His background in edge-cloud ML research (including a Python/YOLO person re-identification pipeline that cut IoT data transmission by 95%) gives him a pragmatic data-and-performance focus. A former enlisted U.S. Army liaison, he blends disciplined communication and leadership with hands-on mentoring, having directed a 20-person student engineering organization. Kevin holds a double major in Computer Science and Statistics from Grinnell College and is noted for translating complex domain needs into user-facing features and efficient backend systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - Double Major, Computer Science and Statistics, Bachelor of Arts - Double Major, Computer Science and Statistics at Grinnell College
English, Korean, French
Github Skills (14)
mongoose8
mern8
expressjs7
mongodb6
react5
nodejs5
testing2
web-application2
partials2
unit-testing1
full-stack1
modeling1
database1
ruby1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kimwooch/GrinnellMeets
Feb 2020 - Mar 2021
A MERN Stack website that enables students to upload and promote their student organizations.
Contributions:33 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
reactexpressjsexpressmernnodejs
kimwooch/ImageComparisonPixelHue
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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