Soo Kim
Senior Software Engineer at Kakao Corp
Gyeonggi, South Korea
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Top SchoolSoo Kim is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance backend systems and end-to-end web applications, currently shaping architecture and DevOps automation at Kakao. He specializes in Go, TDD-driven development, and systems requiring integrity and maintainability, while actively using Redis, MySQL, Docker and cloud services. Soo blends hands-on implementation (REST APIs, server programming) with mentorship—leading refactors, PR reviews, and prototyping to raise team code quality. His background spans large-scale platform work at Kakao and SK Planet, plus deep experience migrating and hardening legacy services early in his career, reflecting a pragmatic commitment to defensive programming and readable code. He also enjoys exploring new languages and paradigms, which informs his multi-language toolset from Kotlin and Rust to TypeScript and Ruby.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Korea University
English, Korean
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Github Skills (108)
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identity10
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flip10
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countdown-timer10
user-profile10
golang10
shell10
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openresty10
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todomvc10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
philipjkim/vue2-flip-countdown
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
A countdown timer with flip effect for Vue 2.x
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 89 commits in 4 years 3 months
2-xvuefliptimercountdown
philipjkim/mlbh2h
Apr 2019 - Apr 2020
Daily MLB Fantasy Head-to-Head Point Viewer
Contributions:61 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year
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