Brian Kim

University of California Berkeley

Computer Science Student

About Me

I am a Undergraduate Computer Science & Statistics Student at UC Berkeley graduating in May 2024.

My Interest lies in Computer Graphics and Cloud Computing. I'm looking for new ways to run services on the cloud and build architectures that help with large graphic workloads. I use insights from different domains (from Microservices to Software Defined Networking) to improve the stability and throughput of large systems.

I'm currently working on SkyPlane: Inter-Cloud bulk data transfer interface, advised by Professor Ion Stoica and Joseph E. Gonzalez.

I'm also working on JIPCAD: A Joint-Interactive-Procedural CAD Tool used for mathmatical 3D modeling, Advised by Professor Carlo H Sequin.

s3kim2018[at]berkeley.edu
San Francisco Bay Area

Education

University of California,
Berkeley
B.A. Computer Science, Statistics
Aug 2018 ~ May 2024
Military Service: 2021 ~ 2023
Admitted to 5th year EECS MS
CS GPA: 3.9/4.00

Work Experience

Meta
Software Engineer
June 2024 ~ Present

Samsung SDS
Software Engineering Intern
Samsung Nexprime Cloud SCM
June 2023 ~ Aug 2023

Juniper Networks
Software Engineering Intern
CN2 Automation
May 2021 ~ Aug 2021

Research

Berkeley SkyLab : Skyplane

Advised by Professor Ion Stoica and Professor Joseph Gonzalez

July 2023 - Dec 2023

•Building an inter-cloud object transfer system, optimizing for cost or throughput.
• Collected IP ranges for Microsoft Azure, allowing Skyplane to detect Azure region based on IP address.
• Integrated Skyplane CLI and Library with Google Bigquery, enabling inter and intra cloud data transfers to and from Google Bigquery.

Joint-Interactive-Procedural CAD Tool : JIPCAD

Advised by Professor Carlo H. Séquin

Sept 2020 - Present

• Developed an error reporting module for JIPCAD’s graphic generation language.
• Lead Dynamic Scenes development: Built Modules for Orthogonal and Perspective Displays under a specified frustum. Added new Ambient, Directional, and Cone lighting features.
• Made the Sharpness and Catmull-Clark Subdivision features more robust through in-scene Merging. Allowed users to define Hierarchical Coloring of faces.

Work Experience

Samsung SDS

Software Development Intern | Samsung Nexprime SCM

June 2023 - Aug 2023

• Built a Verification Server which is designed to be hosted on a Virtual Machine.
• Built a lightweight C++ applet, deployed on Kubernetes, that verifies the license of the Cloud SCM Platform.
• Designed/Implemented a troubleshooting tool that checks the Verification Server’s status and prints out details of the License.
• Gave a Tech Talk to the Samsung SCM team on deploying monolithic platforms to the cloud.

Juniper Networks

Software Development Intern | CN2

May 2021 - Aug 2021

• Participated in the development of the Cloud-Native Contrail Networking (CN2) platform and Implemented software that visualizes Kubernetes, OpenStack, or OpenShift components on a Go web server.
• Designed and implemented automated testing features, allowing users of CN2 to write custom testing protocols in JSON format. The custom tests check against existing components and visualizes missing or malfunctioning components.
• Contributed to the successful launch of CN2 and published a patent, “Analysis System for Software Defined Architectures (2022, 12)”

Aware Technologies

Head of Engineering

Aug 2021 - Nov 2022

• Led the development of a Financial Commentary and Analysis Web Service Startup, resulting in 1000+ customer growth and securing a $100,000 investment from the government.
• Designed and implemented the article website, complete with user registration, post-viewing/editing interface, post recommendations, subscription interface, and an admin management page with Django and MySQL Database.
• Supported Continuous Integration to our web service:
[feature proposal -> development -> local testing -> deployment -> monitoring].

Military Service (Republic of Korea Army)

Sergeant, Squad Leader

Nov 2021 - May 2023

• Took a 2 year break from university to serve as a Linguist for the Republic of Korea Army, Combined Forces Command, Signal Unit.

Projects

DIST.AI

June 2021

• Detects people from a video via YOLO Architecture Neural Network
• Distinguishes lines/groups of people using MSTs and K-Means algorithm.
• Generates a heat map of the most crowded areas of the video frame.

Graph Traversal Visualizer

Jan 2020

• Built a web application that visualizes graph traversal algorithms in a Grid.
• Supports BFS, DFS, Dijkstra’s, A*, and Kruskal’s algorithm.
• Built a web application that visualizes graph traversal algorithms.

Chess AI

Jan 2020

• Built a Chess game in the web, which supports Player vs Player and Player vs AI
• Built a Chess AI engine with Minimax Algorithm and Alpha Beta Pruning.

Patents

ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORK ARCHITECTURES
JNP3631-US
Filed Dec. 2022, Not yet Published