Leah Kim
CS Student · Aspiring Software Engineer
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Final-year CS student who loves building things people can actually click. Two internships, a handful of side projects, and a growing collection of half-finished hackathon ideas. Looking for my first full-time role.
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Internships
6
Projects shipped
1
Hackathon wins
About
I got into programming through a high-school robotics team, where I was the person who actually enjoyed writing the control code at 2am. Now I'm finishing my CS degree and spending most of my free time on side projects — the best way I've found to learn. I've interned twice, shipped features real users touched, and I'm looking for a first role on a team that cares about mentorship and building things well. Still early, still learning fast, genuinely excited about all of it.
Works
Next.js · Side project · 400 users
StudySync
A study-group matcher for my university. Next.js + Postgres. 400 students signed up in the first month.
View projectHackathon · 🏆 Winner
LeafID
Hackathon winner — a plant-identification app using a fine-tuned vision model. Built in 36 hours.
View projectGo · Learning
tiny-db
A toy key-value store I built to understand B-trees and WALs. Well-commented, for learning.
View projectPractice
Final-year CS · two internships · building side projects to learn
Software Engineering Intern
Zillow
Built an internal dashboard in React + GraphQL now used daily by the pricing team.
Software Engineering Intern
A YC startup
Shipped the onboarding flow and wrote the first integration tests for the codebase.
Undergraduate TA
University of Washington
TA for Data Structures — lead two weekly sections of 30 students.
Education
B.S. Computer Science (expected 2025) — University of Washington 2025
Expertise
Python · JavaScript / TypeScript · React · Node.js · SQL · Git · Data Structures · REST APIs
Certifications
Meta Front-End Developer — Coursera 2024
AWS Cloud Practitioner — AWS 2023
Words
“Leah shipped like a second-year engineer, not an intern. Asked great questions and left the codebase better than she found it.”
Recognition
- 1st place — UW HackCup 2024
- Dean's List (3 years)
- Google STEP alum