# Dain Kim

> Senior Software Engineer at Academia.edu

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dainkim

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Academia.edu
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Academia.edu
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ Iterative Scopes
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
· automated ML experiment training pipeline using JavaScript and AWS; increased efficiency by 200-fold
· monitored and generated analytic visualizations for experiment results using Splunk and d3.js
· attended regular ML team meetings and discussed improvements for machine vision algorithms

### Data Analytics Intern @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
· developed the back-end of a context-aware music recommendation system that can understand subjective queries and present personalized results
· collected, organized, and analyzed music data through the Spotify API and constructed queries from natural language inputs using Python, JSON, and SPARQL

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Whitehead Institute
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA
· extracted and computationally analyzed genetic variants from large Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) datasets to find their impact on disease heritability
· identified statistically significant variants that affect the gene expression of multiple sclerosis, visualized the collected data in heatmaps
· discussed relevant publications with lab members each week to modify evaluation methods and yield reliable results


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### High School
Northfield Mount Hermon


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dain--kim

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Last updated: 2026-04-01