# Tae Kim

> Senior Frontend Engineer at Airbnb

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/taekim

* React-focused JavaScript.

* Loves solving UI architectural problems.

* Develops modern client-side web applications at multiple levels, ranging from the build system, API interaction, UI behavior, UI presentation, accessibility, and performance.

* Conference speaker at React Conf 2019, hosted by Facebook.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Tae Kim Tech, LLC
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Remote contractor improving Frontend codebases.

Walmart Labs (1 year contract, https://www.walmart.com/)
- Developed and maintained the core Product Page.
- Handled high volume events, such as PS5 sale days.
- Spent a majority of my time doing performance measuring and finding possible bundle size reductions.

Candidate Labs (2.5 month contract, https://candidatelabs.com)
- Implemented a public Job Board application and custom component library from scratch.
- Improved Lighthouse Performance score from 4 to 70.
- Handled the NextJS upgrade to the latest version.
- Integrated Storybook into the development environment.
- Migrated the codebase off of Material UI, in favor of custom component library.

Mammoth Water (1 week contract, https://mammothwater.com/)
- Built out the Water Dashboard from the ground-up.
- Created frontend WIKI documentation, standardizing technologies and patterns.

### Senior Frontend Engineer @ Tempo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Building Airbnb's unified UI design system.
- Developed the company-wide design system refresh
- Drove the modularization effort of Airbnb's Design System
- Implemented the Modular Architecture that enabled flexibility and re-use of the component library
- Enforced web accessibility
- Javascript, Typescript, React, Jest, Enzyme, Storybook, Webpack, ESLint

Built Airbnb's Server Driven UI System (Lona) on Web.
- Within the first few months at Airbnb, built out the server-driven UI framework on Web and reached functional parity with iOS and Android
- Helped drive Airbnb's Server Driven UI initiative
- Javascript, Typescript, React, Jest, Enzyme, Storybook, Webpack, ESLint

### Senior Software Engineer @ Blacklight CMS
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Denver, Colorado
Architected and developed the Template Engine that will be used by both Blacklight developers and clients to create and maintain websites.
- Worked with a fully distributed team
- "Ground up" development, creating a well-tested and maintainable code base
- React, Redux, Node, Ramda, Webpack, SCSS, Jest/ Enzyme, ES2015, ESLint, GO

### Mentor @ Turing School of Software & Design
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Denver, CO
Mentoring students as they progress along their path of becoming a developer.
- Focus around javascript mentorship
- Job interview counseling
- Javascript, React, Redux, jQuery, Mocha/Chai/Enzyme, ES2015, ESLint

### Code Cowboy @ Zipskee
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Denver, CO
A social platform that connects Locals with Travelers across the world.
- Personal side-project with a team of dedicated and experienced friends.
- Led the initiative to rebuild the platform's front-end with two other developers.
- Heavily interacted with the entire tech team to establish product scope, processes, technologies, and patterns.
- React, Redux, Lodash, Karma/Mocha/Expect/Enzyme, ESLint, Webpack, ES2015, Ruby/Rails

### Software Engineer @ real
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Denver, CO
Built a satellite imagery search, management and processing web application, bringing $3 million in revenue the first year.
 - Took on a Frontend Lead position to direct devs and code, simultaneously.
 - React, Relay/GraphQL, Lodash, Karma/Jasmine, ESLint, Webpack, ES2015.

Extended features for an audit-appointment scheduling tool
 - Maintained the application by extending current features to fit client's needs.
 - Java, Spring, PostgreSQL, AngularJS, Javascript, JQuery, Bootstrap, HTML5/CSS3.

Built a workforce-benefits marketplace from the ground up.
 - As a team, built an online marketplace for internal company benefits under an extraordinarily tight deadline.
 - AngularJS, Javascript, jQuery, BrainTree, SASS, HTML/CSS, C#, .NET.

### Software Engineer I @ Shazam
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Johnston, Iowa
Implemented MasterCard credit card mandates under tight deadlines in a TDD environment, allowing Shazam to stay up-to-date with mandate demands while maintaining long-term code quality
-  Java, jUnit

### IT Manager @ RPMAccess LLC
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | De Soto, Iowa
RPMA, short for RPM Access, is a regional developer of utility-grade wind generation projects.

Developed a wind farm representation 3-D web component.
- Solved the business problem of showing potential clients and property owners the wind farm designs by displaying them on Google Earth and making it available on the web. 
- Google Earth API, XML, Javascript, HTML/CSS

Managed all aspects of the companies IT needs, including server, server-failure system, company machines, routers, emails, and cloud file-storage.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Maverick Software Consulting
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Ames, IA
Developed automated UI tests for Thomson Reuters Westlaw legal solutions platform
- Validated the on-going development of the Brief Tools platform.
- C#, .NET


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Software Engineering
Iowa State University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2013

### Valley High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/taekimjr
- Website: http://taekim.tech/

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Last updated: 2026-03-22