Summary
Kyungyong Shim is a Cloud Application Architect at AWS with a decade of professional experience and over 15 years in web, e-commerce, and cloud domains. He has progressed through technical and customer-facing roles at AWS, combining solutions architecture and hands-on cloud application development to help teams build scalable systems. Previously he founded and led a recommendation shopping startup, architecting ElasticSearch-based search, ML-driven recommendations, and large-scale crawlers, and he contributed to core platform features at eBay and Samsung. Comfortable across front-end, backend, mobile APIs and infrastructure, he brings practical experience migrating systems to cloud and optimizing performance under traffic growth. Based in Irvine, CA, he blends startup grit with enterprise-scale delivery and a track record of leading small teams to production. An interesting detail: he pairs deep systems design with product-facing roles, having secured early government seed funding for his startup.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
International Exchange, International Exchange at University of California, Davis
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Chung-Ang University
English, Korean