Wesley Kim
Engineering Manager - Distributed Storage at Chronosphere
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWesley Kim is an engineering manager specializing in distributed storage and observability, with 13 years of experience and currently leading Distributed Storage at Chronosphere in New York. He previously led engineering at Cash App after a multi-year tenure at Square, bringing production experience across consumer fintech and cloud-native platforms. A Carnegie Mellon computer science graduate, Wesley is an active backend contributor to high-profile open-source projects like m3db (a distributed TSDB) and Cash App’s Misk, where he’s driven core storage/server refactors, downsampler and rules-engine improvements, and metadata/authentication enhancements. Known for tackling low-level storage plumbing (including lockfile/dice refactors) as well as developer-facing APIs, he blends hands-on systems engineering with team leadership to deliver scalable metrics and microservice infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Lakeside SchoolBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English
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Github Skills (23)
kotlin10
api-doc10
back-end-development10
microservices-application10
distributed-systems10
tsd10
go10
api10
distributed-system10
microservices10
metric10
aggregator9
testing9
authentication9
user-authentication9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
m3db/m3
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
M3 monorepo - Distributed TSDB, Aggregator and Query Engine, Prometheus Sidecar, Graphite Compatible, Metrics Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 298 reviews, 74 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Wesley contributed to the M3 monorepo by modifying core storage and server components. They refactored code related to the "dice" and "lockfile" packages, moving them into different areas of the project. The user also addressed various issues related to the coordinator and the rules engine. Furthermore, they implemented improvements to the downsampler and added a new API related to the rules store.
distributedquerymonorepoquery-enginesidecar
cashapp/misk
Aug 2018 - Mar 2019
Microservice Kontainer
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 34 commits, 103 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Wesley primarily contributed to the back-end functionalities of the Misk microservice framework. They added documentation and notes for developers on using authentication features. Furthermore, the user updated the WebActionMetadata API to include allowed services and roles and implemented a test module for the admin dashboard. Their work also involved modifying the WebActionMetadata to include request parameter type information, thus enhancing the capabilities of the framework.
dockermicroservicemicroservices
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