Taehyun Kim
Founder at Faang Handyman LLC
Torrance, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolTaehyun Kim is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 9 years of recent experience and a 25+ year engineering pedigree building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems. He has led major migrations and architectural rewrites—from monolith-to-microservices and large-scale search systems to packet-processing appliances at AWS—combining deep C++ performance tuning with Kotlin, Go, Python and cloud-native tooling. Taehyun excels at scaling both systems and teams, having managed DevOps and infrastructure for 1000+ game servers and driven feature launches for Blizzard and SendBird at massive message volumes. His toolset spans from socket/IOCP-level optimization to Kafka/Redis/Elasticsearch architectures and observability platforms like Datadog and Grafana. Based in Torrance, CA, he pairs a lean-startup mindset with hands-on delivery, often resurfacing non-obvious gains (e.g., 17x update speed improvements) through algorithmic and systems-level refinements.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Kyungsung University
Stackoverflow
1,836reputation
72kreached
18answers
10questions
gradle
top-5%
android
top-5%
testing
top-5%
Github Skills (103)
spring-jdbc10
orm-framework10
maven10
mybatis10
sql10
mapper10
mysql10
java10
sql-generation10
android10
spring-boot10
square10
kotlin10
spring-integration10
spring10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
galcyurio/Settings-Intellij
Jul 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:327 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
next-step/android-memo
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:28 reviews, 3 commits, 13 PRs in 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.