Jace Kim

Tech Lead | Software Engineer | Physician

Software engineer with over 10 years of experience, specializing in backend systems, with experience in data engineering and deploying ML models. Interested in distributed systems, microservice architecture, efficient data pipelines, and agentic coding. Also hold an M.D. and previously practiced as a primary care physician.

bugprone@gmail.com github/bugprone linkedin/bugprone Torrance, CA

Experience

Software Engineer, Co-founder@ Clap2025 – Present
  • Built an AI-native messenger with natural language command processing and LLM agent capabilities; developed backend services and designed entire AWS infrastructure with IaC.
    RustPythonTerraformKubernetesAWSPostgreSQL
Founder@ Codivery2023 – Present
  • Leveraging agentic coding to rapidly prototype and ship experimental projects across various domains.
    Agentic CodingAI
Software Engineer, Team Lead@ MOIN Inc.2021 – 2022
  • Designed and developed a distributed system for an international money transfer service, including KYC, notification system, and payment APIs.
    NodeJSNestJSRedisDockerMySQLPostgreSQL
Software Engineer@ RSQUARE2020 – 2021
  • Enhanced a real estate big-data pipeline and deployed multiple data-driven microservices.
    GolangRustgRPCDockerKubernetesPostgreSQLDynamoDB
  • Designed and developed the backend system and admin interface for a newly launched mobile app from the ground up.
    C#.NETgRPCDockerKubernetesPostgreSQLRedisRabbitMQ
Software Engineer, Team Lead@ DoAI Inc.2019
  • Designed data preprocessing pipelines for medical AI models.
  • Implemented an ML inference server to deploy multiple models in production.
    PythonDjangoReactDockerKubernetes
Primary Care Physician@ Ministry of Health and Welfare2016 – 2019
  • Served over ten thousand outpatients annually, specializing in chronic diseases, immunization programs, and tuberculosis care.
Software Engineer, Co-founder@ Mainz Healthcare2015 – 2017
  • Designed an HL7 FHIR-compliant EMR database.
  • Implemented Golang backend services including REST APIs for secure clinical messaging.
    GolangJavaScriptHL7 FHIR
Software Engineer@ Korea Institute of Science and Technology2011 – 2012
  • Developed real-time 3D reconstruction for clinical sonography using GPGPU programming.
    C++CUDAOpenGL
Software Engineering Intern@ NAVER Corporation2007
  • Query log analysis to prevent web search engine abuse.
    Java
Research Assistant@ KAIST2006
  • 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

2012 – 2016

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

B.S. Computer Science · Daejeon, South Korea

2005 – 2010

Seoul Science High School

One-year early graduation · Seoul, South Korea

2003 – 2005

Honors & Activities