# Young Min Kim

> Staff Software Engineer at The Trade Desk

Location: Walnut Creek, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/young

Specialties: React, Typescript, GraphQL, Redux, Continuous Delivery, Data Visualization

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ The Trade Desk
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
- Directing high-visibility delivery for strategic initiatives, managing multiple squads to resolve critical technical risks and ship complex workflows while negotiating executive-level scope for on-time delivery.
- Optimizing organizational health and developer velocity by restructuring code ownership and initiating a global demo series across NAMER, APAC, and EMEA to drive alignment and knowledge sharing across the UI engineering org (80+ people)
- Scaling GraphQL infrastructure and reliability as the UI GraphQL SME, spearheading the platform's best practices and leading the large-scale Apollo v4 migration.

### Software Engineering Manager @ Square
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Remote
I manage a full-stack team of 10 engineers building a Catalog service for all Square sellers.

### Senior UI Engineer @ Netflix
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Los Gatos, CA
I am on the Studio UI Foundations team building software to manage vendors, talents, etc.
- Represents UI engineering at the Studio Edge Strategy group (https://netflixtechblog.com/how-netflix-scales-its-api-with-graphql-federation-part-1-ae3557c187e2)
- Advocates the health of the federated schema as part of the Core Schema Review team
- Leads the Studio UI Feature Flag initiative

### Head Of Engineering @ Vingle
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
- Managed the entire engineering organization (12 iOS, Android, Frontend, and Backend engineers)
- Improved team effectiveness by implementing feedback loops such as postmortems, retrospectives, and 360 degree feedbacks
- Guided frontend technology decisions, focusing on better maintainability and predictability
- Iterated on frontend architecture progressively to cope with evolving product requirements
- Created testing patterns from React component unit tests, lifecycle tests, to production tests
- Adopts new technologies such as storybook.js, and prettier.js to improve development productivity
- Created a Medium-like web rich text editor using draft.js, and Immutable.js
- Migrated a web product from Angular+Rails templates to React+Redux SPA to reduce dependencies
- Built a DevOps infrastructure using Jenkins 2.0 and Docker to improve development speed and quality (1 deployment/day -> +10 deployments/day)
- Led engineering hiring effort and has hired 9 engineers thus far (team went from 7 to 12)
- Hosted 5 open tech talks with over 200 total attendance to improve team branding

### Advisor @ Metamarkets
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016

### Head of Frontend @ Metamarkets
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Coached team members to succeed in both technical and non-technical tasks
- Troubleshoot processes between Frontend and the newly born Product team to improve workflow
- Onboarded two new engineers to Frontend team

### Software Engineer @ Metamarkets
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Developed a SaaS data analytics web application using Node.js and D3.js.
- Achieved continuous integration with on-premise Jenkins and npm scripts
- Ensured quality by revamping testing frameworks and automating integration testing with PhantomJS

### Software Engineer Intern @ Metamarkets
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Implemented new visualizations such as a barchart and treemap
- Pioneered a new pivot table visualization that goes deeper than 2 dimensions.


## Education
### BA in Computer Science, Operations Research and Management Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012

### High School
Korean Minjok Leadership Academy
Jan 2005 – Jan 2008


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ykim3
- Website: http://youngk.im
- Website: https://young.substack.com/

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Source: https://flows.cv/young
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/young/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22