Jace Kim
Engineer | Physician
Software engineer with over 10 years of experience, specializing in backend systems and data engineering, with experience deploying ML models. Currently contributing to projects in the CNCF and Rust ecosystems, with a focus on observability, developer tooling, and agent engineering. Interested in distributed systems, microservice architecture, and efficient data pipelines. Also hold an M.D. and previously practiced as a primary care physician.
Experience
- Partnering with aesthetic clinics and beauty brands on growth strategy, performance marketing, and customer acquisition.
- Built an AI-native messenger with natural language command processing and LLM agent capabilities; developed backend services and designed entire AWS infrastructure with IaC.
- Building AI-native software through rapid prototyping and product experiments across domains.
- Designed and developed a distributed system for an international money transfer service, including KYC, notification system, and payment APIs.
- Enhanced a real estate big-data pipeline and deployed multiple data-driven microservices.
- Designed and developed the backend system and admin interface for a newly launched mobile app from the ground up.
- Designed data preprocessing pipelines for medical AI models.
- Implemented an ML inference server to deploy multiple models in production.
- Served over ten thousand outpatients annually, specializing in chronic diseases, immunization programs, and tuberculosis care.
- Designed an HL7 FHIR-compliant EMR database.
- Implemented Golang backend services including REST APIs for secure clinical messaging.
- Developed real-time 3D reconstruction for clinical sonography using GPGPU programming.
- Query log analysis to prevent web search engine abuse.
- Research on automated ontology construction.
- Contributed to the automatic coding system of Statistics Korea.
Education
The Catholic University of Korea, College of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine · Seoul, South Korea
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
B.S. Computer Science · Daejeon, South Korea
Seoul Science High School
One-year early graduation · Seoul, South Korea
Honors & Activities
- Open Source Contributor across CNCF and Rust ecosystem projects, 2026.
- Translator of the Korean edition of Efficient Go, Golang Korea, 2023 — bit.ly/3sdLw6V
- Entrance Scholarship, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, 2012.
- Undergraduate Honor Scholarships with Full Financial Aid, KAIST, 2005–2010.
- Selected for Korean national IOI training camp, 2002 & 2003.
- 5th place in the 19th Korea Olympiad in Informatics (KOI), 2001.
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Lifetime Member
- Korea Information Science Society (KISS), Lifetime Member
- Korean Society of Medical Informatics (KOSMI), Member