# Hyukjoong Kim > Senior Staff Software Developer at Sonatus Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/hyukjoong PhD. Full-stack software architect/developer - Internal AI tooling, Harness engineering, Agentic development curator - Maintaining internal code agent (Claude) marketplace - Maintaining plugins for common skills & agents for company-specific software process, workflow - Maintaining plugins for backend development with architecture & template - Backend: go, kotlin, python, dart - Frontend or mobile: Android mobile, Flutter - Applied AI agent development: Agentic pipeline design/development (Langgraph, MCP, ADK) CKAD certified Fast learner & heavy coder Special interest in software/code quality: clean architecture, clean code, software process & agile process ### Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) System / fully-connected Vehicle (2023~) Goal: Establish SDV service that can manage the vehicles and gather data, automate behaviors. Automator service, policy management, and AI-based assistant to automate product services ### Spatial AI-based Service for Offline Retail Shop (2021~2023) Goal: Based on IPS (Indoor Positioning System), provide user information at the physical world. ### Home IoT Edge Framework (2019~2021) Goal: Establish a local IoT Edge network with smart home appliance devices. Aggregate/Serve context data of each device in the network. Support inter-device execution, and device automation based on rule engine using context data. ### ARM/KVM Virtualization (2018~2019) Goal: Launch WoA (Windows on ARM) as a guest OS on Android mobile phone using ARM HYP mode, ARM/KVM to enable light work tools (MS Office, ERP tools, etc) on Android mobile phone. ## Work Experience ### Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend @ Sonatus Jan 2025 – Present | Sunnyvale, CA ### Staff Software Engineer, Backend @ Sonatus Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Pangyo South Korea ### Full-stack Developer (Flutter, Ktor) @ Samsung Electronics Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seoul, South Korea ### Staff Software Engineer (Smartthings Home IoT Framework) @ Samsung Electronics Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 ### Staff Software Engineer (ARM/KVM virtualization) @ Samsung Electronics Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Seoul, Korea Samsung Research ### Ph.D Course Student @ Sungkyunkwan University Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 ## Education ### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Computer Engineering Sungkyunkwan University ### Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Computer Engineering Sungkyunkwan University ### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Sungkyunkwan University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hyukjoong-kim --- Source: https://flows.cv/hyukjoong JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/hyukjoong/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01