jinmo-kim

Full-stack Engineer

From the frontend to the backend and the infrastructure, I build one product end to end.

About

I build one product end to end

Since July 2025, I have been working as an MX Manager at Soundmind. On a single child safety product, I built all four layers myself, from the Android native code on the device to the collection server, the parent app, and zero-downtime deployment.

The problem I wrestled with longest was not losing location data on devices where a management policy keeps mobile data off and logs cannot be read. After funneling data opening and release through a single gateway and correcting for the power-saving timer delays I measured in the field, the transmission success rate reached 100%. On the server, I changed the pipeline to drain and store incoming locations atomically and quarantine failures separately, so a single broken record no longer halts the entire load.

In the parent app, I built the logic that interprets noisy coordinates into places stayed and travel routes, eliminating the problem of indoor stays splitting apart and baseless movement guesses appearing on screen.

At WIGTN, a five-person AI development and research crew, we build AI systems that run in real environments. On WIGVO, which performs two-way real-time interpretation over the ordinary phone network, I handled the relay server and deployment infrastructure, recording a median latency of 555 milliseconds on real calls and zero echo loops across 147 calls. The paper was accepted to ACL 2026 System Demonstrations.

With the same team, we released two open-source plugins covering Claude Code's parallel agent orchestration and Codex's Evidence Contract, and took second place at the Snowflake AI & Data Hackathon Korea 2026.

At the company, I have built one product end to end; on the team, I have explored how to put AI into the development process itself. Connecting the two, I want to work on redesigning how development and operations are done, not just using AI as a tool.

Jin-mo Kim
Experience

Work Experience

Services and areas I have owned at work.

  1. 2025.07 ~ Present

    Soundmind

    MX Manager

    Responsible for the apps, servers, web, and deployment of child safety and education services.

    • Odiya Child Device App
      Solved a problem where transmissions dropped on managed devices that keep mobile data off by default. Funneled data-enable requests through a single gateway and added a minimum 6-second hold rule, securing a 100% transmission success rate.
    • Odiya Parent App
      Designed the location interpretation UI around the principle "better to show nothing than to be wrong". Three-stage subway inference filter, stay clustering, and screen gating by child app version. 89 unit tests.
    • Odiya Location Collection Server
      Stores up to 5,000 records every 60 seconds in batches via a Redis queue, recovering in order on failure. Removed a structure where a single corrupted record halted all storage.
    • KOCCA Korean Speaking Test Platform
      Owned every area: test-taking screens, around 30 grading admin pages, the STT/TTS pipeline, and building the AI training dataset. Destructive schema changes are automatically blocked at deploy time.
    • Mohani Child Smartphone Usage Management
      Designed a structure where devices catch up on settings by themselves even when push messages are lost. Added redundancy so blocking persists even if accessibility permission is turned off.
    • Unified Login Server
      Transcription requests run in a separate always-on worker with a capped number of concurrent calls, keeping the external service from being hit all at once, while row locks claim jobs one at a time to prevent duplicate calls
    • Deployment and Operations
      Built zero-downtime deployment for three products. Set up Jenkins automated deployment and server/log monitoring.
Education

Schools

Where I formally studied.

  1. 2025.03 ~ 2025.06

    Gangseo Polytechnic College

    Smart Finance Program (left early after job offer)

    Bootcamp-style curriculum spanning frontend/backend/DB/AI/Docker.

  2. 2016 ~ 2024

    University of Ulsan

    Chinese Lit / Japanese Lit (B.A.)

    Double major covering Chinese and Japanese language and literature. Earned JLPT N1 by graduation.

Training

Training & Programs

Bootcamps and short-form programs outside formal schooling.

  1. 2024.06 ~ 2024.12

    Ozcodingschool · Frontend Track

    6-month program · Completed

    Industry collaboration and team projects for hands-on end-to-end product experience.

    • MovieGet · Movie ticketing site (Team Lead)
      Top contributor on a 3-person team (50%, 185 commits). Owned Toss Payments integration, TMDB API wiring, list-page infinite scroll refactor, and AWS deploy. Also handled the integration merge PR and build blockers.
    • MICGolf · PapaTaLabs industry collaboration storefront
      Second-most commits on a 4-person team (33%, 126 commits). Owned PortOne checkout integration, email / Naver / Kakao social login, back-office CRUD, and category/product infinite scroll across the e-commerce surface.
Certifications & Awards

Certifications & Awards

Verified credentials and external recognition.

  • 2022

    JLPT N1 (Japanese-Language Proficiency, Level 1)

    Business-level still developing; reads kanji largely by context.

  • 2026

    Snowflake 2026 Hackathon · Runner-up

    wigtn-for-snowflake · Team WIGTN CREW

  • 2026

    ACL 2026 Demo Track · Accepted

    wigvo-v2 · Team WIGTN CREW

Tech Stack

Technologies

Tools and environments I have handled hands-on in real projects.

  • Primary Stack

    • React Native
    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • Spring Boot
    • MariaDB
    • Redis
    • Docker
  • Frontend · Mobile

    • React
    • Android (Java/Kotlin)
    • Expo
    • Tailwind CSS
    • TanStack Query
  • Backend · Data

    • Java
    • NestJS
    • Node.js
    • Prisma
    • MySQL
    • PostgreSQL
  • Infra

    • Nginx
    • Jenkins
    • GitHub Actions
    • GCP Cloud Run
Work Projects

Company work

Cross-stack work shipped at Soundmind Inc. Tap a card to read the full case study.

Team & Bootcamp

Team projects

WIGTN CREW team work and bootcamp outputs. Sorted to surface hackathon wins and projects where my hands-on contribution was strongest.

Contact

Let's Work Together

Reach out via Email, GitHub, or LinkedIn. I am currently prioritizing positions at Japanese companies that build their own services.