Seong-june Kim
Cultural Heritage, Developer & Tech Lead at Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSeong-june Kim is a seasoned software engineer and technical lead with 11+ years building full-stack, IIIF-enabled discovery and delivery systems for cultural heritage institutions at Yale. He combines deep engineering discipline across languages and tooling with a recent focus on JavaScript-driven front ends and Digital Humanities use cases, leading cross-collection initiatives for museums and libraries. As a member of the IIIF Technical Review Committee (2020–2024) he helped shape standards while implementing production pipelines for complex archival and image-centric applications. His open-source contributions include front-end quality and test work on the widely used Mirador image viewer, reflecting attention to maintainability and interoperability. Based in New Haven, he pairs academic rigor (MS Computer Science) with practical experience in search, web crawling, and data architectures that bridge research and production systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Economics, B.A., Economics at Seoul National UniversityM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at DePaul UniversityB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Virginia
English, Korean, French
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
annotate9
annotations9
testing9
iiif9
mirador9
css7
html7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ProjectMirador/mirador
Feb 2016 - Feb 2018
An open-source, web-based 'multi-up' viewer that supports zoom-pan-rotate functionality, ability to display/compare simple images, and images with annotations.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 44 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Seong-june primarily addressed front-end development tasks by fixing JavaScript errors, converting code to soft tabs, and adding tests. Their commits demonstrate a focus on code quality and consistency within the Mirador viewer project. They also merged branches related to release and test updates, indicating involvement in the project's ongoing development and potentially some build and testing processes. The user also addressed a bug related to width and height assignments.
openseadragonrotateannotationsiiifjavascript
yale-web-technologies/yale-mirador
Jul 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:426 commits, 439 pushes, 23 branches in 2 years 4 months
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