Sunggeun Kim
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolSunggeun Kim is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer based in San Jose with nine years of experience building production ML systems across tech and enterprise—most recently enhancing GenAI-driven recommendation systems at The Walt Disney Company. His background spans LLM-powered developer tools, RAG and agentic flows at Capital One and Microsoft, and anomaly detection and telemetry for cloud operations, blending deep learning research with pragmatic engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a history of publishing and high-performance simulation work from his time in academia and at Intel, which informs his rigorous approach to model evaluation and monitoring. Known for moving models from prototypes into robust, observable services, he pairs prompt engineering and automated LLM evaluation with scalable data pipelines. Outside product work he brings a human-centered perspective to AI—focusing on solutions that genuinely help people rather than tech for its own sake.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.S Information and Communication, M.S Information and Communication at Gwangju Institute of Science and TechnologyPh.D Electrical engineering with Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) program, Ph.D Electrical engineering with Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) program at Purdue UniversityB.A Electrical Engineering, B.A Electrical Engineering at Ajou University
English, Korean
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Github Skills (13)
android6
azure-data-explorer4
python4
sdk4
scale3
bond3
json3
serialization3
flatbuffers3
dotnet3
cross-platform2
microsoft2
cross-language2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sunggeunkim/datastructure
Feb 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:162 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
sunggeunkim/Machine-Learning-Trading
May 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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