# Sarah (Kim) K.

> Software Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sarahkimk

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Atlassian
Jan 2022 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ Fastly
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Signal Sciences
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater Los Angeles Area
• Led CloudWAF team, from a proof-of-concept to over a hundred deployments for customers and prospects across
multiple regions globally, handling 2.5k RPS with autoscaling up to 6K RPS
• Set technical direction the CloudWAF service, notably for dynamic provisioning of cloud infrastructure, management of customer certificates and integration with new in-house reverse proxy
• Established processes such as retrospectives and planning meetings in order to improve collaboration across multiple departments and within the team
• Grew CloudWAF team from 3 to 8, interviewing and training new hires
• Led successful major version upgrade of MongoDB, creating disaster recovery plans and upgrade processes in collaboration with SRE team
• Led the design and implementation of integrating Signal Sciences (Fastly) event data with Okta's risk partner API
• Contributed to Fastly and Signal Sciences data integration efforts using Kafka and go-wasm

### Senior Software Engineer @ Factual Inc
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Los Angeles Area
• Led team of 4 in Proximity Designer product (UI tool that enables advertisers to target users by location) which is responsible for ~20% of revenue
• Established team-specific Code Review Best Practices, and Code of Conduct
• Tech lead and product manager of new Delivery Management UI, set to decrease delivery time by 30%
• Contributed to Engine Demo App (Android Java and React Native apps), which allowed sales team to showcase Factual's mobile SDK
• Upgraded session management from cookies to cache stores after discovering and patching a replay attack

### Software Engineer @ Factual Inc
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018

### UI Developer @ Factual Inc
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Los Angeles, CA

### Data Technologist @ Pandora
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Oakland, CA
• Improved and automated processes of data extraction and cleanup
• Automated manual updates on Excel docs to Python scripts using pandas and Hive Query Language
• Created documentation on previous and new processes and code
• Introduced best-practices on version control, code comments, code reviews and style.
• Created web-based data visualization using d3.js libraries, replacing Powerpoint-based reports

### Online Marketer @ One Medical Group
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
• Project lead for implementing new site launch, in partnership with Product/Engineering
• Used Javascript, Ruby, and HTML5, and SASS for creating the new site (onemedical.com/nyc)
• Write bug fixes and other features as unofficial engineering support for marketing team
• Acquired ~3000 new members in 2013 through organic search, a 31% YOY growth, with
a 50% YOY growth in organic site traffic
• Analyzed online performance for search, site, and acquisition with Google Analytics,
!BrightEdge, and other analytics tools.

### Marketing & Public Relations Intern @ Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego County
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Diego, CA
• Developed copy for internal e-newsletters, emails, and press releases
• Supported BBBS - SD County’s website (a Wordpress based site)

### Social Media & Administrative Assistant @ UC Berkeley
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Berkeley, CA
(California Pacific Public Health Training Center (Public Health Department)
• Designed and created the first e-newsletter for the California Pacific Public Health Training
Center (CPPHTC), an organization under UC Berkeley’s Public Health Department
• Managed social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn


## Education
### MA in Medieval Studies
University of Oxford
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012

### B.A. in History
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22