Mingyu Kim
Principal Engineer at Amazon
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMingyu Kim is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale back-end systems, search and optimization features across major tech platforms. He has driven reliability and scalability at Google (Gmail and Chat infrastructure), led backend and horizontal scalability efforts at Palantir, and shaped offers and experience architecture as a Principal Engineer at Amazon before joining Meta on capacity efficiency. Proficient in C, C++, Java, C#, and modern web stacks, he blends low-level performance engineering with product-focused system design. Trained at Stanford (BS/MS CS), he has a track record of optimizing complex pipelines—from a specialized caching system for financial backtesting to high-throughput messaging services—bringing a pragmatic, data-informed approach to reducing cost and improving service efficiency.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (44)
palantir10
spark-ml10
avro10
apache-spark10
spark10
python10
r10
big-data10
hadoop10
apache10
jdbc10
analytics10
java10
large-scale10
scala10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mingyukim/incubator-parquet-mr
Apr 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
parquetapachebig-dataapache-parquetjava
palantir/spark
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
Palantir Distribution of Apache Spark
Contributions:18 commits, 23 PRs, 23 pushes in 11 months
octo-correct-managedpalantirspark-mlapachebig-data
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