Son Kim
Product Manager at Proton | Privacy by Default
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolSon Kim is a product-focused engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience building privacy-first and scalable products from startup to scale. He founded SimpleLogin, an open-source email forwarding and identity provider service, and currently leads product efforts on Proton Pass at Proton, blending deep technical ownership with user-centric privacy design. Previously he served as Director of Engineering and CTO roles, building recommendation engines and distributed systems at companies like Workwell, Fitle and Criteo. His background in computer science and mathematics (Ecole Polytechnique, Telecom ParisTech, VNU) underpins a strong analytics and systems mindset that shows up in both architecture and product decisions. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering and strategy, he’s known for turning research-grade algorithms into production-ready features and for shipping open-source tooling that empowers user privacy. Based in Paris, he combines startup grit with academic rigor and a track record of founding multiple tech products.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Mathematics, High School, Mathematics at Hanoi National University of EducationEngineer's Degree, Computer Science, Engineer's Degree, Computer Science at Ecole polytechniqueEngineer's Degree, Distributed system, Engineer's Degree, Distributed system at Telecom ParisTechBachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics at Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Vietnamese, French, English
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Github Skills (200)
instagram10
facebook-api10
authentication10
firefox-addon10
terraform10
backup10
whatsapp10
spotify10
hosting10
paas10
windows-live10
flask10
twitter10
python-social-auth10
application-settings10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
simple-login/documentation
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:59 reviews, 59 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 1 month
simplelogin
nguyenkims/satellizer-demo
Dec 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:45 commits, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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