Thomas Kim
Architect at Iterable
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Kim is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience and deep expertise in backend architecture, databases, and statically typed functional programming—Scala is his language of choice. He has led technical direction as Chief Architect at Iterable, driven search and recruiting platforms as a Principal Engineer at Workday, and co-founded an NLP-for-BI startup that was acqui-hired for its semantic parsing and SQL-generation work. His career includes large-scale product and infrastructure contributions at Salesforce—spanning query optimization, multi-tenant analytics, and CI/OS tooling—and early engineering experience at Microsoft and E.piphany. Now at Google working on App Hub and Google Cloud, he combines hands-on implementation with strategic platform thinking to solve performance and scalability challenges. Trained in Chemistry & Physics at Harvard, he brings analytical rigor and a taste for formal techniques to system design and language-driven solutions. An understated strength is his ability to translate researchy ideas (like CCG-based semantic parsing) into production-ready systems that scale.
10 years of coding experience
AB, Chemistry & Physics, AB, Chemistry & Physics at Harvard University
Github Skills (78)
opensearch10
elasticsearch10
rest-api10
blocking10
search-engine10
java10
circe10
restful10
non-blocking9
reactive9
rust9
libgit29
http9
generic-programming9
reactive-streams9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tksfz/doto2
Apr 2017 - Dec 2019
Task planning for teams
Contributions:9 releases, 30 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 8 months
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Iterable/play-formless
Sep 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year
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