Taewon Kim
Machine Learning Engineer at Meta
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolTaewon Kim is a machine learning engineer at Meta with 11 years of experience building scalable ML and high-performance systems, currently focused on ads recommendation at scale. He previously architected high-throughput, low-latency DDoS detection and mitigation systems at AWS that processed TB/s data streams and cut time-to-response from 20+ minutes to three. With a PhD in Quantum Chemistry and a strong academic record, he has applied ML, graph algorithms, and numerical optimization to accelerate molecular simulations and design linear-time recommendation and clustering methods for large biological and chemical datasets. He has led interdisciplinary teams to produce widely used open-source scientific libraries and terabyte-scale databases, pairing production-grade DevOps with research-grade rigor. Comfortable translating complex science for general audiences, he bridges research and production to turn advanced models into operational systems. Based in Florida, he brings a rare combination of deep scientific training, systems engineering, and hands-on experience across cloud, HPC, and ML production.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Quantum Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Quantum Chemistry at McMaster UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Ghent University
English, Korean
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Github Skills (49)
gpa10
procrustes10
r-package9
static-analysis9
file-conversion9
file-converter9
analytical9
lint9
transformation9
linter9
chemistry9
optimization9
gaussian9
computational-biology8
numba8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kimt33/Flik
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
An experimental local optimization package
Contributions:20 PRs, 31 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
optimizationmultiobjective-optimizationlocal-optimization
kimt33/gbasis
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
Python library for Gaussian basis function evaluation & integrals
Contributions:148 pushes, 69 branches in 5 months
python-librarypythonevaluationintegralssvd
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