Hodol Kim

Freelance Software Engineer

Education and Certifications

July 2021

Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services
20192015

Cornell University

Bachelor of Arts Ithaca, New York
German Studies Major

Experience

Dec. 2020Dec. 2019

Backend Software Engineer

Sunrisa Portland, Oregon (Remote)
  • Built and tested software using pair programming and test-driven development
  • Developed core data models in python along with unit and integration tests with Pytest framework to test core application logic
  • Managed endpoints that handle reads/updates to core data models
  • Set up Sunrisa to run on AWS EC2 through multi-stage Docker build
Oct. 2019May 2017

Senior Developer

Minority, Indigenous, and Third World Studies Research Group (Cornell University) Ithaca, New York
  • Maintained and continually updated group website (HTML/CSS) and social media
  • Migrated group websites to new servers
  • Interviewed andidates to hire new employees and conducted training sessions for new employees

Additional Experience

Dec. 2019Oct. 2019

Tutor

Private Tutor Seoul, South Korea
  • Tutored high school students in biology and English and prepared them for their exams, as well as SATs
  • Created tailored lesson plans focusing on students’ weaknesses to improve on
  • Taught in both English and Korean
Jul.   2016Jun. 2016

Intern

Cintinus (Law Firm) Dresden, Germany
  • Translated clients’ legal documents, terms and conditions, and contracts from German to English
  • Conducted in-depth research and assisted with analysis and translations on international taxation cases
  • Assisted with the launch of an English language version of the company website
Jul.   2016Jun. 2016

Intern

Gerth Rechtsanwälte (Law Firm) Dresden, Germany
  • Conducted and assisted in research and analysis of international child support laws between Germany and Canada for a case
  • Translated terms and conditions documents for a client firm, as well as contracts between firms

Crypto Experience

Crypto Experience

Self
  • Keep abreast of crypto events through use of Crypto Twitter, Discord servers, podcasts (UpOnly), and new DApps
  • Traded on- and off-chain on Coinbase Pro, Kucoin, dYdX, Mango Markets, Drift Protocol, etc with personal accounts
  • Deployed stablecoin farming strategies through Gemini Earn and DeFi protocols such as Anchor Protocol on Terra and Saber and Sunny Aggregator on Solana
  • Bridged to MetisDAO, an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling Solution, to farm NETT on Netswap Farm
  • Bridged to ETH Layer 2s such as Arbitrum, Optimism, and ZKSync, then used DApps on them to farm airdrops

Selected Projects

Aug 2021Sept 2021

Serverless Analytics Project - Covid Data

  • Automated an ETL processing pipeline for Covid-19 data using AWS services
  • Used Serverless Framework (Infrastructure as Code) to develop the architecture of AWS S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway to pull and compile data from publicly available source that refreshes daily
  • Used AWS API Gateway to set up REST API to return requested data given a date and AWS Lambda to implement a microservice
Sept 2021Dec 2021

Resume Challenge

  • Recreated resume in HTML/CSS, hosted in S3 Bucket
  • Deployed website through CloudFront with SSL enabled
  • Created a python Lambda function with DynamoDB to store daily counts and return total visits