Yong Kim
Senior Research Programmer at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYong Kim is a Senior Research Programmer with nine years of focused experience in geographic information systems, spatial statistics, and database-driven applications, based at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Champaign, Illinois. He blends a deep academic background in Library and Information Science with hands-on software skills across Java, Python, C#, C, PHP, VB and major RDBMS platforms (Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL) to deliver research-grade tools for geospatial analysis and digital image processing. His career at the University of Illinois and NCSA spans roles from research scientist to senior programmer, giving him a rare combination of domain expertise and production software engineering. Known for translating complex spatial-statistical requirements into robust web and database systems, he often bridges research workflows and operational data services for large-scale scientific computing.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (53)
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apply10
infrastructure10
loss10
nist9
middleware9
authentication9
viewer9
python9
building-blocks9
authentication-middleware9
modeling9
logging9
vtk9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
IN-CORE/pyincore-data
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:23 releases, 23 reviews, 86 PRs in 3 years 7 months
policy-design-lab/pdl-api
Oct 2022 - Oct 2024
Policy Design Lab web service API
Contributions:13 releases, 58 reviews, 139 PRs in 2 years
policyapiweb-serviceapi-servicelab
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