Summary
Tony Kim is a Senior Developer Advocate based in Dallas with six years of experience bridging engineering, education, and developer relations. He builds technical content and partnership strategies for MongoDB while drawing on hands-on full-stack experience from roles at Southwest Airlines and Veryable, where he implemented cloud-native services, microservices, and security hardening for high-scale systems. As founder of Hanawilo LLC and a longtime instructor at Nucamp, he blends product-level engineering with thoughtful coaching—mentoring dozens of learners in the MERN stack and career transitions. His background in petroleum engineering and field operations at Halliburton gives him uncommon domain insight into real-world systems and data-driven tooling, informing pragmatic developer advocacy.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Flatiron School
Bachelor's Degree Petroleum Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Petroleum Engineering at Colorado School of Mines
Korean, English