Dan Kim

BearerMay 2022–June 2023

Software engineer

• Successfully performed legacy migration from Webpack to esbuild and PostCSS and reduced the code compilation time by 70%.
• Expanded and maintained the design system and frontend components using ViewComponent.
• Built Bearer's user interfaces using Turbo and Stimulus.

frogogo October 2018–April 2022

CTO

• Led and coordinated a team of 10 people overseeing the creation of a product.
• Built the initial version of the web app including the CRM, API and UI framework using the latest technologies: Ruby on Rails 7, Turbo, Tailwind CSS.
• Launched a web app that reached $2,085,000 in profit, 66K+ orders, and 400K+ users.
• Helped build the mobile apps that generated $560,000 in revenue and increased the number of monthly users by 5,000.

YouModels July 2017–July 2018

CTO, full-stack developer

• Immensly improved the developer experience and productivity by leading a full upgrade of the app to the latest technology, migrating the legacy code, and enhancing the efficiency of tests.
• Updated the outdated PayPal-centred payment processing system & payment submission form, integrated Stripe processing, which expanded the client base and led to an influx of sign-ups.
• Built an efficient search engine & contributed to SEO optimisation.

Binary Blitz January 2015–November 2017

CTO

• Scaled the company's development department to 2 teams.
• Led the architectural planning for web and mobile apps.
• Developed backends and APIs for mobile applications.
• Designed mobile apps for both iOS and Android.

Artly 2021

apps.apple.com

Artly is an educational app that helps users learn more about world visual art. I developed the iOS app, engineered the dataset framework and all the UI components. The project entered the iOS user market, vastly increasing the target audience. In the App Store, it has 340K views and over 20K downloads.

Spacecards 2019

github.com/dankimio/spacecards github.com/dankimio/repetition

Spacecards is a memory training web app with a spaced repetition algorithm. As its founder, I developed the initial product and was in charge of all the aspects of the app. Specifically for this project, I created an open-source library "repetition".

chisto 2016

github.com/BinaryBlitz/chisto BinaryBlitz/Chisto-iOS

Chisto was created to initiate automated processing of dry cleaner orders, the first implementation of this idea in Russia. The apps provided aggregated information on available dry cleaners, their schedule & prices, and calculated the best deal. Chisto launched in 2016 with 25 dry cleaners in several cities. The original code is now open-sourced.