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Junior at Rice University (CS '27). I build infrastructure and backend systems that have to be fast, correct, and still running at 3am.

I've built a distributed cache in Go, scaled an edtech startup to 5K users as a founding engineer, and worked on robotics systems at UT Austin. This summer I'm joining eBay's Cloud Platform team.

Eric Kim
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Skills & Tools

What I work with.

PythonPython
GoGo
C++C++
TypeScriptTypeScript
JavaJava
SQLSQL
KubernetesKubernetes
DockerDocker
AWSAWS
LinuxLinux
GitGit
ReactReact
Next.jsNext.js
FastAPIFastAPI
PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
RedisRedis
MongoDBMongoDB
PyTorchPyTorch

Work

Where I've been.

eBay

eBay

San Jose, CA

Software Engineer Intern

May – Aug 2026

Incoming intern on the Cloud Platform team, building Kubernetes infrastructure in Go.

Air Alliance Houston

Air Alliance Houston

Houston, TX

Software Engineer

Aug 2025 – Present

Built real-time air quality monitoring infrastructure serving 3K+ active users — data pipeline, database, caching, and ML forecasting.

UT Austin

UT Austin Oden Institute

Austin, TX

Software Engineer Intern

May – Aug 2025

Built fault-tolerant robotics control systems and optimized ML training infrastructure — parallel pipelines, 99.9% uptime, and distributed GPU training.

Scholarhive

Scholarhive

Houston, TX

Founding Engineer

Oct 2024 – Jan 2025

Designed and built the full stack from scratch — database, ML matching pipeline, infrastructure. Grew to 5.5K+ users and $500K in scholarship matches. Got a YC interview.

Projects

Things I've built.

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GoCache

GoCache

Distributed cache engine

In-memory cache in Go — 50K+ RPS at <1ms latency, LRU eviction, write-ahead logging, consistent hashing, and automatic leader election failover.

GoDockerPrometheusTCP
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02
OwlConnect

OwlConnect

AI mentor-matching platform

Won 2nd place at HackRice 15 (500+ participants). Real-time WebSocket streaming and LangChain AI agents for instant mentor discovery across 500+ profiles.

LangChainFastAPIMongoDBWebSockets
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03
LifeLink

LifeLink

AI health assistant

AI health assistant serving 500+ users — fine-tuned Mistral-7B with LoRA, RAG pipeline over medical documents, <1s response time on AWS EC2.

Next.jsFlaskAWSMistral-7B
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