Summary
Sean Kim is an associate application engineer and full-stack developer with a decade of professional experience building customer-facing web and mobile features using React, React Native, Next.js, Node.js and Java. Currently at BlackRock following an acquisition, he has shipped end-to-end dashboard and product features and thrives on owning projects from UI design through deployment. A University of Illinois Chicago CS graduate, Sean blends enterprise experience at Northern Trust and Northwestern with startup-style initiative—he co-founded and scaled Midwest high school hackathons, raising $20K and organizing 300+ attendees. Comfortable wearing many hats, he pairs front-end focus with backend reliability and a knack for translating stakeholder needs into polished, user-facing solutions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Computer Science, Computer Science Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
Computer Science, Computer Science at William Fremd High School
Korean, Spanish, English