➜ ~ whoami
Leah Kim
CS Student · Aspiring Software Engineer
➜ cat bio.txt
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.
➜ ~ stats --all
2
Internships
6
Projects shipped
1
Hackathon wins
➜ ~ ls ./links
➜ ~ cat about.md
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.
// mission: Learn relentlessly and build things that are useful, not just impressive.
const values = ["Curiosity", "Craft", "Collaboration", "Growth mindset"]
➜ ~ cat experience.log
# Final-year CS · two internships · building side projects to learn
Software Engineering Intern
Summer 2024@ Zillow
Built an internal dashboard in React + GraphQL now used daily by the pricing team.
Software Engineering Intern
Summer 2023@ A YC startup
Shipped the onboarding flow and wrote the first integration tests for the codebase.
Undergraduate TA
2023 – Present@ University of Washington
TA for Data Structures — lead two weekly sections of 30 students.
edu: B.S. Computer Science (expected 2025) @ University of Washington (2025)
cert: Meta Front-End Developer — Coursera (2024)
cert: AWS Cloud Practitioner — AWS (2023)
➜ ~ ls ./projects
▸ 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
➜ ~ cat reviews.md
> Leah shipped like a second-year engineer, not an intern. Asked great questions and left the codebase better than she found it.
— Her intern manager at Zillow
➜ ~ cat achievements.log
- ✓ 1st place — UW HackCup 2024
- ✓ Dean's List (3 years)
- ✓ Google STEP alum
➜ ~ cat contact.sh
# speaks: English, Korean