Slava Kim

Education

MIT

2015-2019 Cambridge, MA

Bachelors in Computer Science

Selected Coursework:

Compilers Eng
Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
Database Systems
System Security
Systems Eng
Performance Eng
Adv Datastructures
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Computational Photography
Advanced Machine Learning

Expertise

Areas Of Interest

Distributed Systems
Web Technologies
System Security
Image Processing
Compilers
Open-Source Software

Technologies Used

Golang • Typescript • C++
Zookeeper • Redis • 0MQ
GraphQL • PostgreSQL • HBase
Docker • Kubernetes • AWS • Heroku
React • Redux • Relay • Apollo
Git • Mercurial • GitHub • Phabricator

Links

Github	Slava
Codeforces	imslavko
TopCoder	imslavko
Twitter	@imslavko
Blog	devblog.me

Work Experience

Figma
Software Engineer

2019 - current United States

Core contributor to LiveGraph, Figma's internal auto-realtime GraphQL system, taking it from a prototype to production 2019-2022
Performance observability, monitoring and CI systems for the Figma Editor and frontend systems

NCSOFT
ML Intern

Winter 2019 Pangyo, South Korea

Developed a tool for labeling images and CV data collection: Label Tool300+ stars

Brave
Security Intern

Summer 2018 San Francisco, CA

Fixed security and privacy bugs in the Brave Browser
Developed a new micro-service for authorized anonymous operations
Built an Ethereum wallet integration and dApps support for the Brave Browser
Mentored by Yan Zhu, Brave's Chief Security Officer

Facebook
SWE Intern

Summer 2017 Menlo Park, CA

Worked on GraphQL client infrastructure: Relay, GraphQL compiler
Developed a new open-source debugging tool: Relay Developer Tools
Mentored by Lee Byron, GraphQL co-author and open-source maintainer of GraphQL projects

Meteor
SWE Intern

Summer 2016 San Francisco, CA

Built major features for open-source GraphQL client: Apollo Client
Worked on the commercial product Optics: out of query path profiler for GraphQL

Meteor
Core Developer

May 2013 - Aug 2015 San Francisco, CA

Core Developer on the very popular open-source web framework Meteor
One of the first 10 engineers in the company
40.000 stars on GitHub, top 4 contributor
Worked on every part of the framework: datasync, buildsystem, live templating, deployments
Contributed to the development of distributed fault-tolerant deployment system: Galaxy

Open-Source & Side-Projects

Meteor
and related projects

Meteor the framework 43.000+ stars
Meteor autocompletion for text editors 300 stars
Meteor live-updates with RethinkDB 312 stars
Meteor live-updates with PostgreSQL 155 stars

GraphQL
and related projects

Apollo Client 18.000+ stars
Relay 17.000+ stars
Relay DevTools 140 stars

Brave
and related projects

Brave Browser 8.200 stars

Awards

2014	Hackathon Winner	ChimeHack
2012	Silver Medalist	International Olympiad in Informatics
2011	Bronze Medalist	International Olympiad in Informatics

Activities

MIT 6.148	Lecturer, Sponsors Chair, Tech Chair
MIT Climbing Team	Member, Competitor
MIT ATS	Web-Master
MIT KSA	Web-Master
MIT ZBT	Tech Chair