John Kim

Computer Science at Georgia Tech

Experience

Databricks
May — Aug 2026

Software Engineer Intern

Mountain View, CA

Incoming Software Engineering Intern for Summer 2026.

RoboJackets
Sep 2025 — Present

Software Engineer

Atlanta, GA

Working on autonomous robots.

Amazon
May — Aug 2025

Software Development Engineer Intern

Bellevue, WA

Accomplished hydration and enrichment of over $50,000,000 of digital transaction data per year by developing a plugin utilizing AWS Lambda. Fulfilled 99.99% accuracy on tax linkage for Amazon's digital order records (12 transactions per second) by engineering robust logic pipelines with SQL, AWS Athena, and AWS Glue. Delivered enhanced customer-facing tax insights for 10,000,000+ transactions by deploying endpoints and redesigning front-end features with React.

Georgia Tech College of Computing
Jan 2025 — Present

Data Structures & Algorithms Teaching Assistant

Atlanta, GA

Conduct weekly office hours open to 1100+ students per semester, focused on 1-to-1 sessions for course content. Teach weekly recitations for 20+ students on topics ranging from Binary Search Trees to Graph Algorithms. Build and maintain csvistool.com, a data structures and algorithms visualization tool with 1000+ users daily.

Silicon Jackets
Aug — Dec 2024

Design for Testability Team Member

Atlanta, GA

Actively contributing to debugging key RISC-V CPU modules, with a focus on signal analysis and clock behavior. Enhanced system reliability by identifying and resolving clock-related issues in various components and enforcing better design principles for easier debugging in the future. Collaborated on full-chip integration tasks for the club's inaugural $40,000 RISC-V CPU tape-out.

Selected Work

Jan 2025 — Present
JavaScript, React

Data Structures and Algorithms Visualization Tool

Expand and maintain a data structures and algorithms visualization tool using JavaScript and React.js. Used by nearly every student in CS1332 and deployed on csvistool.com with more than 100,000 impressions.

October 2024
React, Flask, Gemini API, RunwayML API

Boovie

Developed a full-stack web application that leveraged AI tools like Gemini, Google's Imagen, and RunwayML that converts book PDFs into engaging, dynamic 30-second movie trailers. Collaborated with others to create a system that extracts, summarizes, and transforms book content into trailers, utilizing Python, Flask, and React for processing and UI. Presented a detailed report about the application's architecture and pipeline to Google's Lead Product Manager and AI Developer Relations Lead, Paige Bailey.

Writing

Sep 30, 2025

Building this website.

building this personal website and it'll stay a work in progress.