Minki Kim
Software Engineer at Kakao Corp
Yongin-si, South Korea
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Top SchoolMinki Kim is a software engineer with 10 years of experience focused on data stores, distributed systems, and cloud computing, currently contributing at Kakao Corp. She has deep hands-on experience building memory cache systems and cluster features from her time at JaM2in working on ARCUS (replication, persistence, cluster management). An active open-source contributor, she has improved robustness and stability in the widely used memcached project by hardening error handling and adding operational features like debugtime. Known for steady, incremental progress—mirroring her GitHub motto—she blends system-level C expertise with production engineering at scale. Based in Yongin-si, South Korea, she combines research-minded rigor with pragmatic maintenance work that keeps critical infrastructure reliable.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
학사, 미디어소프트웨어, 학사, 미디어소프트웨어 at Sangmyung University
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Github Skills (9)
c1710
error-handling10
c1110
system-programming10
memory-management9
debug8
debugging8
testing7
operating-system6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
memcached/memcached
Aug 2019 - Dec 2020
memcached development tree
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 12 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Minki primarily focused on improving the robustness and stability of the memcached server. Their commits addressed several critical areas, including error handling in critical functions like `dup` and `malloc` failures. The user also implemented features, like the `debugtime` command, and performed code maintenance tasks, such as adding include directives and removing unused functions. These contributions indicate a focus on server-side development and system-level improvements.
lrumysqlmemcachekey-value-storememcached
minkikim89/arcus-memcached
May 2016 - Sep 2020
Arcus memory cache server
Contributions:117 pushes, 36 branches in 4 years 4 months
arcuscache-servermemorymemcachecache
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