# Michael J. Kim

> Software Engineer at Asana

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaeljkim

Software Engineer on the Developer Efficiency team at Asana

I'm currently focused on improving developer iteration times by working with Bazel (our build system), configuring development environments, developer tooling, and the Git workflow.

Experienced with:
- Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript (React, React Native), C# (.NET Platform), Go, Bazel
- AWS EC2, Ansible, MySQL, PostgreSQL

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Asana
Jan 2019 – Present | New York, New York, United States
I'm on the Developer Efficiency team. We aim to improve developer efficiency by improving the following systems: Bazel (our build system), development environment, local tooling, and Git workflow.

### Lead Software Engineer @ DAPZ
Jan 2018 – Present
- Sole developer of the mobile app connecting college students for an on-campus chat to discuss a topic of mutual interest
- Using React Native for a cross-platform frontend and Django for the backend server

### Software Engineer Intern @ AIZEN Global
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
- Designed and developed the entire system architecture, database, and web framework for a platform to train ML models using Python’s Scikit-learn library to predict the likelihood of delinquent payments on loans or fraudulent credit card transactions
- Allowed for automating model training in parallel which decreased analysis times by a factor of 5
- Introduced several productivity tools (Trello, CI, Slack with Git integration etc.) not well known in Korea

### Software Engineer Intern @ Picasso Labs
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | New York, NY
- Worked on a Ruby on Rails platform that analyzes social media images to infer viewers’ visual preferences
- Added functionality to allow users to save preferences
- Wrote an Ansible playbook to automatically configure new application and database servers
- Leveraged the Amazon Mechanical Turk API to automate tagging of images, reducing time spent on tagging by 80%

### Software Engineer Intern @ Applied Predictive Technologies
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Arlington, VA
Worked on the DevOps team and improved the product alerting system with the .NET framework (C#)

Designed and developed DbPoker, an application that pings each database to check on their health status
- Wrote a .NET application that handles the web requests and pokes the requested database
- Wrote a Chef script to automatically configure the VM the application will run on
- Created the deployment pipeline for DbPoker in Jenkins

Established a database which holds information about our Service-Oriented Architecture that includes Servers, Hosts, Apps, Environments, Routers etc. and their relationships that were previously hardcoded in multiple places

Used the database to easily generate, update, and sync several files including deployment plans, configuration files for Icinga (a server monitoring tool), and router configurations

Won a hackathon prize for Wow Factor for creating a chatbot that automates repetitive tasks for employees

### Programming Intern - The Pace Center for Civic Engagement @ Princeton University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Princeton, NJ
- Maintained a database and web interface to display and modify information for the staff and involved students
- Created a system through which students can make support requests to staff which increases request twofold

### App Developer - myPrintston iOS @ Princeton University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Princeton, NJ
- Developed an app in a group of 3 to locate the nearest working printer on campus and crowdsource errors
- Designed and developed the iOS app

### Programming Intern @ Gojee, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | New York, NY
- Collected information on user activity and presented important statistic in daily emails using Ruby on Rails
- Discovered a surprising international presence leading to the decision to ship internationally and double sales
- Determined the optimal time to send out promotional emails and customized them towards user preferences


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Computer Science
Princeton University

### High School
St. George's School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michaelkim1993

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Last updated: 2026-03-23