Summary
Yung Kim is a Lead Software Engineer with nine years of experience focused on frontend architecture and AI-driven B2B SaaS in Seoul. He has progressed from early-stage startup teams to leading a frontend squad, building production AI agents that automate CRM workflows and real-time, streaming email composition. Yung combines deep UI engineering—rich text editors, high-performance spreadsheet tables, and strongly-typed client modules—with pragmatic state management and monorepo-wide invariants to reduce duplication and enforce safety. He has measurable impact on product metrics (e.g., 3x web vitals improvement, large conversion lifts) and a track record of shipping features that blend LLMs, external APIs, and type-safe schemas for Korean-language data. Known for organizing internal hackathons and a B2B SaaS conference, he brings both technical rigor and team-building instincts. Outside work he’s a CrossFit regular, hinting at the same discipline he applies to relentless product polish.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science & Interactive Media, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science & Interactive Media at New York University Abu Dhabi
New York University
NYU Shanghai
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Cheongshim International Academy
Japanese, Chinese, Korean