Augustine Kim
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAugustine Kim is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building JavaScript/TypeScript applications, specializing in React and Node.js, and currently based in San Francisco. He has driven web component and SSR improvements as a contributor to the prominent Lit project, improving localization tooling and React/Next.js integration for real-world hydration scenarios. Augustine has held senior roles at Google and Adobe and has a track record of shipping full-stack features in large media and enterprise contexts, including Kafka/SQS integrations and Kubernetes CI/CD adjustments. He also mentors and taught full-stack development patterns at Codesmith, creating course material on databases and backend architectures. Comfortable across serverless, GraphQL, and traditional backend stacks, he combines hands-on coding with pragmatic infrastructure and developer-experience fixes. With an academic background spanning biology and global medicine, he brings an uncommon cross-disciplinary perspective to engineering problems and documentation.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Global Medicine, M.S., Global Medicine at University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of California, San Diego
English, Korean
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Github Skills (26)
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javascript10
learn-ruby-on-rails10
css10
user-manual10
server-side-rendering10
nextjs10
html-template10
basics10
lit10
server-rendering10
front-end-development10
react10
documentation10
server-side10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lit/lit
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Lit is a simple library for building fast, lightweight web components.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 858 reviews, 75 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Augustine primarily contributed to the Lit library, making improvements to the localization tools and SSR (Server-Side Rendering) capabilities. Their commits include enhancing the handling of localized messages and fixing issues related to XLIFF formatting within the localization tooling. Further, the user added options to the SSR to support deferring hydration and improved integration with React and Next.js, by fixing type compatibility issues, handling children passed via props and supporting v14 app router. They also addressed build and test infrastructure issues related to IE11, and made changes to the test and example projects.
web-componentslit-htmllit-elementhtml-templateslit
lit/lit.dev
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
The Lit website
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:448 reviews, 20 commits, 121 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Augustine primarily contributed to the Lit website, focusing on content related to tutorials and documentation. They updated and improved tutorial examples within the `lit-dev-content` repository, specifically addressing list tutorial improvements. Furthermore, the user worked on api documentation, including code changes and version updates for the Lit project. These contributions involved modifying code samples, updating documentation, and integrating new features.
litlit-elementlit-html
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