# Seyoung Kim

> Software Engineer

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

Hi! I'm a software engineer with experience in developing, scaling, and monitoring backend services. I'm interested in distributed systems, databases, compilers, and learning new languages and technologies.

I'm currently on a career break to work on some of my own projects, but feel free to reach out with opportunities!

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Plaid
Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | New York, NY
July 2023 - February 2024: Remember Me
February 2024 - March 2026: Storage

### Software Engineer @ Plaid
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
August 2020 - July 2023: Transactions Platform

### Teaching Assistant @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Led labs and recitations, held office hours, assisted with creation of homework rubrics and questions, graded assignments.

- Spring 2018: TA for a lab section of PHYS 151, an introductory electricity and magnetism course.
- Fall 2018 to Spring 2020: TA for CIS 262, a theory of computation course. Head TA in Fall 2019.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Flexport
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States
Developed a compliance tool for the Customs Engineering team.

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Developed command-line tool for AWS Greengrass testing.

### Research Intern @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Worked in the Drndic Lab in experimental condensed matter physics. Experimented with the growth of two-dimensional materials, tungsten disulfide and molybdenum disulfide, using the method of chemical vapor deposition.

### Research Intern @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Worked in the Thomson Lab in experimental particle physics. Assisted in instrumentation testing and wrote software to collect data, with the goal of updating hardware for the Large Hadron Collider Experiment at CERN.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania

### High School
Conestoga Senior High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29