Summary
Heetae Kim is a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building large-scale storage and database systems, currently driving database work at Salesforce. He spent five years at AWS as a core EBS engineer contributing to snapshots, Outposts, encryption, and fast restore features, and served as a subject matter expert for EBS internal testing frameworks. Prior to AWS he built high-throughput data ingest and optimized PL/SQL pipelines at Samsung and earned an M.S. in Computer Science from USC. Heetae combines deep systems and storage expertise with a strong emphasis on testability and performance engineering, and has a track record of turning multi-day batch jobs into hours-scale processes. Not obvious from titles alone: he has repeatedly moved beyond assigned scope—shipping tooling, migrations, and testing frameworks that improved team velocity and operational reliability.
12 years of coding experience