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Christopher Kim

@cswkim

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Creative technologist and engineer with a career spent in digital agencies, start-ups and big tech.

United States

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What I'm looking for

An environment that encourages new ideas and is not tied to any one piece of technology. I would love to work with talented colleagues who I can learn from and share skills. An energetic pace with ambitious goals but still doesn't take itself too seriously.

I have 15+ years of experience, primarily in the web development space. My career spans a variety of different environments, starting with front-end web development at a number of top digital agencies in NYC. In the middle of my career I decided to work for the client at Warby Parker during their rise from mid-size start-up to a multi-billion dollar company. Eventually I branched out into more of a creative technologist role keeping up to date with most modern technologies. During this span I've built a mobile app that utilizes computer vision, an AI Art-focused news site as well as an NFT project where I was responsible for all development.

I bring vast experience with most modern web technologies, but more importantly I am a generalist who can adapt to any stack very quickly.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Software Engineer

Current

Count It Labs

Oct 2022 - Present (3 years 8 months)

Lead Mobile and Web Developer

Flutter React NextJS Next.js

Creative Technologist

McCann Health

Mar 2020 - May 2020 (2 months)

Lead developer on a web application intended for a touch screen device. Built both the front and back-end portions, utilizing Nuxt/Vue for the client and an Express+Mongoose+MongoDB stack for the server. Also implemented a real-time data updating feature using server-sent events.

Vue MongoDB Nuxt CSS

Creative Technologist

HUSH

Sep 2018 - Oct 2018 (1 month)

Primary back-end developer for an interactive data visualization installation using mainly python. Contributed to a Flask web admin tool to manage the installation, in addition to building a lightweight IoT component using AWS IoT platform.

Python Flask IoT

Creative Technologist

Google Creative Lab

Feb 2016 - Oct 2016 (8 months)

Worked on a variety of projects utilizing a wide-range of tools in the WebGL, machine learning, IoT space.

One of the primary developers on a 2D webgl application site for The Creative Lab 5.

Lead developer on a number of internal python-based web projects.

Python JavaScript ThreeJS WebGL IoT

Freelance Software Engineer

Stink digital

Oct 2015 - Jan 2016 (3 months)

Lead Back-End Engineer responsible for architecture and majority of non-Frontend work for Spotify's 2015 Year in Music site. I was also responsible for Dev Ops related tasks in regards to provisioning and automation.

Python Django Vagrant Ansible AWS

Software Engineer

Warby Parker

Nov 2011 - May 2015 (3 years 6 months)

Software engineer working on various projects including order routing, exam appointment booking system, core site, payment processing, client-side analytics, bug fixing, optimization.

Python CSS JavaScript HTML PostgreSQL

Freelance Web Developer

Dentsu America

Aug 2010 - Jan 2011 (5 months)

Sole developer responsible for all code, front-end and CMS for a complete site redesign using PHP.

PHP CSS HTML JavaScript

Freelance Web Developer

frog design

Feb 2010 - Jun 2010 (4 months)

Built a marketing site for Nokia.

CSS HTML JavaScript

Web Developer

HUGE

Jan 2005 - Sep 2007 (2 years 8 months)

I started as a developer intern which turned into a full-time web developer role. Worked mainly on front-end sites with a sprinkling of PHP back-end work.

PHP JavaScript jQuery CSS Flash