Sam Kim
Software Engineer at Authzed
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Kim is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of professional experience building scalable systems for companies from startups to tech giants. Currently at Authzed, he focuses on platforms for storing, computing, and validating fine-grained permissions, and has contributed backend and datastore improvements to the notable open-source SpiceDB project by migrating PostgreSQL interactions to pgxpool and adding Prometheus metrics. His background includes engineering roles at Gusto, Amazon Kindle e-commerce, and early work across Windows and web portals, reflecting strong expertise in backend, database, and distributed systems. Based in Seattle, he pairs an MS in Computer Science from UCLA with a pragmatic, production-first approach and a history of supporting mission-driven organizations through Code with Heart.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at University of WashingtonUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (14)
go10
postgresql10
database-design10
database-administration9
grpc8
security8
database7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
databases7
distributed-systems7
prometheus7
cloud-native5
acl5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
authzed/spicedb
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Open Source, Google Zanzibar-inspired database for scalably storing and querying fine-grained authorization data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:4 releases, 55 reviews, 59 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on refactoring the datastore implementation, specifically replacing the `sqlx` library with `pgxpool` for PostgreSQL database interactions. This involved modifying core files within the `internal/datastore/postgres` directory, suggesting a significant impact on the database connection management and performance. The user also added functionalities for the Prometheus stats collector. The changes included updating the database connection configuration.
ciamgooglegrpcfine-grained-access-controlcloudnative
authzed/authzed-node
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Official SpiceDB client library for NodeJS
Contributions:13 releases, 31 reviews, 47 commits in 1 year 2 months
spicedbauthorizationauthzedclient-libraryjavascript
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