Sunyoung Kim
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSunyoung Kim is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building backend systems focused on correctness and high-consequence domains. Currently at Airbnb she works on Trust — Permissions Infrastructure and previously on Offline Risk and Profile services, bringing deep production experience in reliability and access control. She has a strong Golang background from earlier roles, having implemented payment/subscription flows, webhook-driven renewals with Stripe, and scalable RESTful APIs tied to location and mapping services. Sunyoung pairs backend rigor with practical frontend integration experience, having driven integrations with Facebook and Google ad APIs and implemented websocket-backed upload status alerts. Her work shows a consistent focus on shipping auditable, maintainable systems that bridge security, payments, and risk domains. She graduated from Kyung Hee University and is known for tackling hard correctness problems rather than chasing flashy features.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, 3.851/4.3, Bachelor's degree, 3.851/4.3 at Kyung Hee University
Korean, English
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Github Skills (26)
react-native-ios10
react-component8
ellipsis8
webrtc7
react7
database-restore6
hashtable6
data-structures6
hash6
bind6
doubly-linked-list6
google-chrome6
css6
tooltip6
ios6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PulseLabs/spazzinglicorice
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:46 PRs, 30 pushes, 18 issues in 11 days
whiteboardjavascript
SunyoungKim508/wormie
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 60 pushes, 9 branches in 21 days
reactios-appreact-nativestreamsvideo-streams
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