# Min Jun Kim

> Building in consumer AI

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

I love making apps! Front-end and back-end and design and everything.

## Work Experience
### Founder @ WaifuChat
Jan 2023 – Present

### Product Engineer @ Digi
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Software Engineer @ Yellowbrick
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
• Building a social platform for stock investors
• Everything from UX-heavy front-end work to SQL-heavy back-end work
• Typescript, React, TailwindCSS, Next.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Airflow

### Catalyst Fellow @ On Deck
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• Owned the design and engineering of a core feature that will allow customers to favorite certain items for easy access across devices and sessions
• Worked with React, Redux, Node.js, and Java Spring
• Deployed with CI/CD pipelines using AWS CDK and internal tools to AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, etc.

### Founder @ Disco Music
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States
• Built a Next.js server-side rendered web application along with a React Native mobile app to connect upcoming artists and fans via a Tinder-like user experience
• Built fluid animations and interactions with Reanimated 2.0 and React Native Gesture Handler
• Scaled back-end with Firebase and Google Cloud Functions
• Grew to over 1.5K users with a 5-star average App Store review

### Full Stack Engineer @ Waitlist
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States
• Worked closely with the founder, revamping the React front-end and scaling the Python Flask back-end
• Integrated the product with Zapier, allowing customers to build their own integrations on top of the Waitlist service

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
• Owned the design and engineering of an end-to-end, extensible user-data service for a previously user-blind application, allowing for thousands of internal customers worldwide to tailor their experiences
• Regularly consulted with senior engineers and designers to produce the best possible results for customers
• Deployed to an AWS API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB architecture with automated CI/CD pipelines using AWS CDK and internal build tools
• React, TypeScript, JavaScript, AWS, Java, Spring

### Instructor @ iD Tech Camps
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
• Instructed and inspired groups of four to ten students (seven to twelve years old) in computer science and programming principles using JavaScript, Python, Scratch, HTML, CSS, and hardware such as BBC's micro:bit, Anki's Cozmos, and pi-tops
• Explained complex concepts such as object-oriented programming and computer hardware design in simple yet comprehensive terms

### Full-Stack Engineer Intern @ The Offline Society
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Washington, D.C.
• Increased user retention and engagement by more than 40% by fixing critical bugs in both the front-end ( jQuery, HTML, SASS/CSS) and back-end (Django) of the web application.
• Improved the gathering and analysis of user analytics by aggregating Facebook API user-data into a web dashboard displaying the most relevant statistics. 
• Maintained the main Ubuntu Linux server (SSL certificates, dependency updates, etc.).

### Instructor @ Mathnasium - The Math Learning Center
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Centreville, VA
• Tutored and supervised students of all ages (elementary to high school) in all areas of mathematics (basic arithmetic to calculus).


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering
University of Virginia

### Chantilly High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mnjn
- Portfolio: https://www.linkedin.com/redir/suspicious-page?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmnjn%2eme

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Last updated: 2026-03-29