Senior Software Engineer II
2022 - 2022Array, LLC- Maintained multiple Gol and TypeScript-based back-end microservices for looking up, normalizing, and storing consumer credit reports from Equifax, Experian, and Transunion.
- Migrated a legacy Python service to Go that wraps a C library for performing bureau report output normalization.
- Migrated a back-end service to switch over connections for making next-generation Equifax requests from a legacy system.
Technologies: Go, Fintech, TypeScript, PythonSenior Software Engineer
2021 - 2022Paperspace- Implemented a full-stack SSH keys feature in the platform's user settings.
- Enhanced and fixed Kubernetes Autoscaler of a public cloud platform.
- Maintained and balanced GPU allocation across three public cloud regions.
Technologies: Go, TypeScript, React, XenServerSoftware Engineer
2019 - 2021Security Scorecard- Rewrote a legacy back-end software to Go microservices.
- Bootstrapped the AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
- Defined the deployment and test procedures to migrate away from legacy software.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, AWS, GoSoftware Engineer
2018 - 2019Tigera- Implemented a Kubernetes service IP advertisement over BGP.
- Installed a selective IP address assignment based on Kubernetes node selectors.
- Rearchitected a user registration workflow involving Zendesk and AWS Marketplace integration.
Technologies: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, GoSoftware Developer
2016 - 2018Synack- Reduced the workload of a service that would handle more than 10 million records a day down to a few thousand.
- Bootstrapped the effort to Dockerize a portion of our monolithic codebase.
- Built multiple RESTful services from scratch, including one that would handle nearly 1 million requests/min.
- Investigated various AWS technologies for integration with the product.
- Performed daily management of the development, testing, staging, and production environments from log monitoring to issue tracking/debugging.
Technologies: RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Docker, Python, Go
Brian Kim
Software Developer in New York, NY, United States
Member since August 5, 2017
Brian is a back-end developer who focuses on building resilient and scalable systems while achieving optimal response times. He enjoys writing code that makes strong abstractions on product requirements while thinking about infrastructure needs—producing software that is easy to deploy and maintain.
Brian is now available for hire
Portfolio
- Array, LLCGo, Fintech, TypeScript, Python
- PaperspaceGo, TypeScript, React, XenServer
- Security ScorecardAmazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, AWS, Go
Experience
- Python 4 years
- Go 4 years
- RabbitMQ 2 years
- MongoDB 2 years
- Kubernetes 2 years
Availability
Full-time
Preferred Environment
Docker, Tmux, Vim, Linux
The most amazing...
...professional work I've done is to take ownership of a broken system component that nobody wanted to touch and make it bring value to the business.
Employment
Experience
- invhttps://github.com/briansan/inv
A full-stack inventory system that implements a Python Flask back-end wrapped around an SQLite database and an Android application as the mobile front-end client.
- J&M Heating and Cooling Home Page Redesignedhttp://jmheatingandcooling.com/m
Rewrote an HVAC company's home page to be mobile-friendly. Used Twitter Bootstrap to leverage the responsive design paradigm for supporting screens of all sizes.
Skills
Languages
Go, Python, Java, C++, C, SQL, TypeScriptPlatforms
Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, Linux, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), XenServerFrameworks
Flask, Bootstrap 3Tools
AWS ELB, RabbitMQ, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Terraform, Tmux, Amazon ECS (Amazon Elastic Container Service), NMap, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MongoDB, Google CloudOther
Concurrency, Vim, AWS, Scalability, FintechLibraries/APIs
ReactParadigms
Agile
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering2011 - 2015Villanova University - Villanova, PA, USA
