Leah Kim
CS Student · Aspiring Software Engineer
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.
2
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.
Learn relentlessly and build things that are useful, not just impressive.
Track Record
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.
Summer 2024
Software Engineering Intern
A YC startup
Shipped the onboarding flow and wrote the first integration tests for the codebase.
Summer 2023
Undergraduate TA
University of Washington
TA for Data Structures — lead two weekly sections of 30 students.
2023 – Present
Education
B.S. Computer Science (expected 2025) — University of Washington · 2025
Skills
Python · JavaScript / TypeScript · React · Node.js · SQL · Git · Data Structures · REST APIs
Certifications
Meta Front-End Developer — Coursera (2024)
AWS Cloud Practitioner — AWS (2023)
Works
StudySync
A study-group matcher for my university. Next.js + Postgres. 400 students signed up in the first month.
Next.js · Side project · 400 users
LeafID
Hackathon winner — a plant-identification app using a fine-tuned vision model. Built in 36 hours.
Hackathon · 🏆 Winner
tiny-db
A toy key-value store I built to understand B-trees and WALs. Well-commented, for learning.
Go · Learning
Word on the Street
“Leah shipped like a second-year engineer, not an intern. Asked great questions and left the codebase better than she found it.”
Honors
- ★ 1st place — UW HackCup 2024
- ★ Dean's List (3 years)
- ★ Google STEP alum