Mark Kim
Senior Software Engineer at Kong Inc.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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RockstarMark Kim is a Senior Software Engineer based in Montreal with four years of professional experience building product and enterprise-grade web applications. He brings full-stack expertise from UI to backend integrations, having shipped features and refactors for Kong Insomnia—an open-source, cross-platform API client—where he improved UX, metrics, and git sync internals. Prior roles at SurveyMonkey and Assent involved rapidly prototyping market research and supply-chain audit solutions, scaling single-customer prototypes into multi-customer products. Comfortable in startup and enterprise contexts, he also has teaching experience as a part-time college instructor, which reinforces his ability to explain complex workflows and onboard teams. Known for a playful confidence on GitHub, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a knack for smoothing thorny integrations and developer-facing features.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (13)
javascript10
electron10
react10
api-client10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
git9
rest-api8
ui-design8
wordpress-graphql7
wpgraphql7
graphql7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/insomnia
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:299 reviews, 25 commits, 112 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the Insomnia API client, focusing on both UI and functionality improvements. Their work included fixing modal key issues, adding metrics tracking for a design preview button, and refactoring git sync-related components. They also addressed issues related to the openapi2kong integration, refining its functionality and resolving circular dependency problems. These contributions span across UI, backend, and integration aspects of the project.
grpcgraphql-restrest-apiapi-clientapi
marckong/insomnia
Apr 2022 - Jun 2024
The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, and gRPC.
Contributions:7 PRs, 208 pushes, 84 branches in 2 years 2 months
api-clientapiapi-platformgraphql-apigrpc
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