Kikang Kim

Backend Engineer

I design stable and scalable service architectures.

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About

Backend engineer with 5+ years of experience, specializing in Python. Experienced in large-scale traffic handling on AWS, real-time data pipeline design, and search engine optimization. Achieved 94.8x throughput improvement through Pub/Sub architecture and contributed to growing a service from 300K to 10M+ monthly page views.


Experience

  1. Aug 2024 — Present

    Backend Engineer · AITRICS

    • Migrated REST API to GraphQL, enabling precise data fetching, eliminating over-fetching, and improving client development productivity
    • Redesigned scheduler-based batch processing to RabbitMQ Pub/Sub architecture, achieving 94.8x average throughput improvement with per-patient event processing and real-time alerts
    • Implemented message failover strategies including Retry, DLQ, and Sequence management for reliable message processing
    • Built Datadog-based APM dashboards, error rate tracking, service health monitoring, and on-call alerting
    • Developed AI agent-powered on-call bot — automated codebase analysis for incident diagnosis via Slack, improving team on-call efficiency by 20%
    AITRICS-VCReal-time vital sign monitoring and AI prediction system
    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • GraphQL
    • Docker
    • RabbitMQ
    • Datadog
  2. Nov 2020 — Aug 2024

    Backend Engineer · Plan.I

    • Owned end-to-end backend design and operations for multiple B2B/B2C services including VODA, VORY-Q, AI Canvas, and AIVORY
    • Built behavioral data collection pipeline using AWS API Gateway + SQS, supporting growth from 300K to 10M+ monthly PV
    • Managed GPU resources on Kubernetes and designed a Redis-backed workload-aware job scheduler
    • Optimized Elasticsearch incremental indexing, reducing data visualization processing time by up to 95%
    VODALarge-scale news and content search serviceVORY-QAI-powered data analysis and visualization platformAI CanvasReal-time collaborative AI data labeling platformAIVORYAI-powered web search engine
    • Python
    • Django
    • FastAPI
    • AWS
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • Redis
    • Elasticsearch

Side Projects

  • recsys-pipeline

    Production-grade recommendation pipeline for 50M DAU commerce — 4-Plane architecture with 3-Tier serving, runs locally with docker-compose, scales to 500K RPS on Kubernetes

    • 3-stage serving: Two-Tower candidate generation → session-aware re-ranking → DCN-V2 GPU scoring
    • 4-Plane architecture (Data/Stream/Batch/Control) with Envoy, Flink, PySpark, and Airflow
    • Cloud-agnostic: single docker-compose up for local development, Kubernetes manifests for production
    • Go
    • Envoy
    • Apache Flink
    • Redpanda
    • DragonflyDB
    • Milvus
    • PySpark
    • Docker
  • binance-futures-bot

    Automated Binance futures trading bot — technical indicator algorithms with multi-agent trading firm patterns, no AI/LLM required

    • 8-indicator weighted voting (RSI, MACD, BB, EMA, ATR, ADX, Stochastic) with per-profile signal quality filters
    • 10-gate risk management: margin exposure limits, daily loss caps, drawdown blocking
    • Adversarial signal validation, BM25 situation memory, and post-trade reflection system
    • 4 trading profiles (Conservative/Neutral/Aggressive/Scalp) with dynamic leverage adjustment
    • Python
    • ccxt
    • pandas-ta
    • APScheduler
    • Docker
  • auto-card-news

    Automated RSS-to-Threads card news pipeline — fetches news, generates 6-card carousel PNGs, and publishes via Graph API

    • End-to-end pipeline: RSS fetch → Playwright scraping → AI summarization → HTML/CSS card rendering → Threads publish
    • Immutable frozen dataclass models, URL dedup + publish history for duplicate prevention
    • Cloudinary image hosting with automatic cleanup, APScheduler-based periodic execution
    • Python
    • Playwright
    • Jinja2
    • Cloudinary
    • Threads API

Skills

Languages

  • Python
  • SQL

Frameworks

  • FastAPI
  • Django
  • GraphQL
  • REST

Infrastructure

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Nginx
  • Jenkins
  • CI/CD

Cloud

  • AWS EC2
  • S3
  • RDS
  • SQS
  • API Gateway
  • OpenSearch
  • Lightsail

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Elasticsearch
  • RabbitMQ
  • Celery

Monitoring

  • Datadog
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana

Testing

  • pytest
  • TDD