Surim Kim
CTO at itdaa (잇다)
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolSurim Kim is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Seoul with 13 years of experience building product-focused engineering teams and shipping web and embedded systems. As CTO of Itdaa since 2019 and a former founder/CTO at Zipbob, he blends strategic leadership with hands-on development—particularly as a principal programmer and Rubyist. His background includes R&D at LG Electronics and advanced training in embedded systems (MSc), giving him a practical edge on low-level integration as well as high-level product architecture. Known for moving smoothly between advisory and operational roles, he helps startups scale technical roadmaps while keeping a developer mindset. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates complex constraints into pragmatic engineering plans and continuously mentors engineers across the stack.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Embedded System, Master's degree, Embedded System at 경북대학교(Kyungpook National University)
Korean, Chinese, English
Github Skills (30)
omniauth9
vpn9
trojan9
proxy9
v2ray9
android9
frontend8
rails8
linux8
xray8
eager-loading8
webpack8
javascript8
ember-cli-addon7
mongoid6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
itdaa-dev/zoom-ruby-client
Nov 2019 - Jun 2021
A Ruby client for the Zoom APIs.
Contributions:1 review, 32 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 6 months
ruby-client
kimsuelim/naver-sdk-ruby
Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
네이버 OpenAPI 루비 SDK (NAVER OpenAPI SDK for Ruby)
Contributions:37 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
openapiruby
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