# Han Kyul Kim

> Software Engineer at Dealpath

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/hankyulkim

Full Stack Software Engineer with a background in life sciences. When I'm not coding I'm either opening booster packs of my favorite trading card game or reading up on the latest innovations in medicine.

Feel free to reach out to me at hankyulkim93@gmail.com if you’re interested in connecting!

Tech stack:
JavaScript | React | HTML5 | CSS3 | Webpack | Git
Node | Express | MySQL | MongoDB | PostgreSQL | Mongoose
Docker | AWS | jQuery

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Dealpath
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Dealpath
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Workshop Instructor @ Galvanize Inc
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Facilitated web-development education for Stripe employees with JavaScript, HTML, & CSS
• Coached students in practicing pair programming and philosophy of being a software developer

### Lead Software Engineering Immersive Resident @ Hack Reactor
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Lead and mentored 40+ junior engineers on computer science fundamentals, data structures/algorithms, software engineering best practices, modern full-stack web development technologies (including React, Redux, Node, Express), databases (including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra), and app deployment technologies (including AWS EC2, S3, Docker, various load testing tools)
• Performed code reviews, and acted as a technical expert during architecture/software design and implementation phases for over 100 projects
• Provided technical guidance and emotional support throughout the 13 weeks long program

### Fullstack Software Engineer @ Personal Projects
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
• Developed an idle clicker game based on the Pokémon franchise with elements of strategy, luck, and visuals
• Utilized React with React Router to create a modular, user-friendly, and extensible frontend as well as unique game logic
• Designed MongoDB schemas, queries, and RESTful API routes to keep track of users’ progress in the game & to allow users to resume where they last left off

### Backend Software Engineer @ Personal Projects
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
• Redesigned and scaled the back-end of a home/property rental application
• Stress-tested & analyzed microservice performance with Loader.io, Artillery.io, and New Relic to measure requests per second (RPS)
• Deployed a PostgreSQL database on an Amazon EC2 instance with an initial throughput of 100 RPS while keeping below maximum thresholds of a 1% error rate and an average latency of 30 ms
• Horizontally scaled microservice by implementing an Nginx load balancer to distribute client requests, increasing RPS from 100 to 1000

### Frontend Software Engineer @ Personal Projects
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
• Developed a responsive front-end microservice utilizing JavaScript and React to display home reservation data
• Architected a custom Express proxy server that handled routing to multiple APIs and served up static assets
• Deployed microservice using Docker and Amazon Web Services (EC2)

### Research Associate @ Cpmc Research Institute
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Created & organized 10+ clinical databases of patients/subjects to keep track of current health status
• Served as a liaison between researchers and oncologists to deliver monthly written updates as well as over 300+ cancer collection samples


## Education
### Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program
Hack Reactor
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Postbaccalaureate Certificate in Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies
California State University - East Bay
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology
UCLA


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-20