Youn Kim

Sr. Technologist at Sandisk

San Jose, California, United States
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Youn Kim is a senior technologist with over two decades of hands-on expertise designing high-speed, low-power memory circuits and architectures across leading semiconductor firms including Samsung, SK Hynix, Yangtze Memory, Western Digital, and SanDisk. He has led chip architecture, data path and page buffer design for advanced 3D NAND, HBM-like stacks, DRAM and emerging memories (PCRAM), delivering production-ready products at multi-gigabit per-pin speeds and pioneering CuA and X-stacking implementations. Known for inventing novel circuit schemes that improve power, timing margin and frequency, he bridges device, process and system teams to translate silicon failure analysis into manufacturable designs. Based in San Jose, he combines deep simulator-driven circuit development (HSPICE/Verilog) with product-level delivery and has been recognized by multiple awards and incentives for his contributions. An understated detail: his GitHub persona “Cimple Life” hints at a pragmatic, efficiency-minded approach to engineering and life outside the lab.
code10 years of coding experience
job15 years of employment as a software developer
bookBachelor of Science (BS) Electronic engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electronic engineering at Soongsil University
languagesKorean, English
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Github Skills (59)

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espressif9
mocking9
esp-idf9
rake9
esp329
behavior-driven-development8
iot8
unit-testing8
testing7
mingw-w647
arm6
cross-compiling6
variadic-functions6
targets6

Programming languages (8)

ShellC++CJavaScriptRubyLexKotlinPython

Github contributions (5)

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fetiu/cyrup

Oct 2022 - Feb 2023

Cyrup: sugar excess programming language
Contributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 39 pushes in 4 months
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Fetiu/Game-of-Life

Jul 2018 - Jan 2020

John Conway's 'Game of Life' written in c.
Contributions:38 commits, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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Youn Kim - Sr. Technologist at Sandisk