Ian Kim
Software Engineer at Soomo Learning
Apex, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Kim is a software engineer with 13 years of experience who blends front-end craftsmanship in TypeScript and React with full-stack Ruby on Rails and Next.js expertise. At Soomo Learning he led a modern tech-stack migration that cut build times 4-10x, reduced bundle sizes up to 65%, and delivered an accessible, WCAG 2.2 AA–compliant user experience while integrating AI chat across OpenAI and Anthropic platforms. His background in speech-language pathology and clinical research informs user-focused design—he built an iPad app and tools that materially improved aphasia study outcomes and automated speech intelligibility judgments. Ian’s work spans production performance tuning, accessibility leadership, and applied ML/AI integrations, reflecting a rare mix of clinical insight and production web engineering based in Apex, NC.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist, M.S., Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Japanese, Korean
Github Skills (92)
roster10
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material-ui10
operator10
react-components10
html10
css10
listview10
react10
chakra9
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javascript9
react-component9
cheminformatics9
chakra-ui9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
SanityGoneAK/sg-astro-experimentation
Sep 2022 - Jan 2024
Contributions:83 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 3 months
iansjk/lyrics
Jul 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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