Harrison Kim

Engineer growing more each day 🌱

Experience

Site Reliability Engineer

1build

Helping codify the language of buildings!

December 2021 - Present

DevOps Engineer

Flock Safety

Containerized and migrated services from Elastic Beanstalk to Kubernetes and monitored the cluster using Prometheus and Grafana

Automated Kubernetes deployments using Helm charts for less redundancy between environments

Configured Kubernetes clusters to use spot instances to save approximately 65% on infrastructure costs

Created and managed CI/CD pipelines for all services using webhooks to automate the deployment of releases

February 2019 - December 2021

DevOps Engineer

Tin Roof Software

Worked on migrating automation of infrastructure from Chef to Kubernetes

Created Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines using Jenkins to test, build, and deploy the application when changes were merged to master branch

Automated the configuration of applications using infrastructure as code with Chef

May 2018 - February 2019

Site Reliability Engineer

GE Digital

Created a distributed build model using Jenkins master/slave nodes on Scalr to implement GUI automation tests using Sikuli

Utilized New Relic API calls and NRQL queries within an automated Jenkins job to disable consistently failing monitors, reducing private minion workloads by approximately 49%

Implemented a CI/CD Pipeline to push updated scripts from our Git repository to monitors, as well as detect and pull changes

Wrote scripts using Selenium WebDriver and Sikuii to monitor applications, creating dashboards and alerts on New Relic Insights with the collected data

May 2017 - May 2018

DevOps Engineer

Macy's Systems and Technology

Created and maintained Jenkins jobs to execute Maven builds and run tests

Automated the post-build process of emailing Serenity reports to developers

Rewrote Jenkins jobs into a Jenkinsfile to have consecutive jobs run in a pipeline

January 2017 - April 2017

IT Developer Intern

The Home Depot

Practiced XP, focusing on pair programming and Continuous Integration and Deployment

Used Ruby on Rails for development of RESTful APIs in the Rental Toolbox web application

Implemented the Test Driven Development process using RSpec, Capybara, and Jasmine to create test suites to serve as regression tests

May 2016 - July 2016

Software Development Intern

Partner Software

Revised Python scripts to Groovy, eliminating legacy code and improving efficiency

Developed a date-time picker application using JavaScript and jQuery for client use

May 2015 - December 2016

Education

University of Georgia

Bachelor of Science

Computer Science

Cumulative GPA: 3.22
In-major GPA: 3.40
August 2012 - December 2016

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools

Projects

Personal Website

This website utilizes GitLab's CI/CD pipeline to push new changes to AWS S3 where it is deployed!

Simple Go Web Server

A simple web server using Go for learning purposes

Uses Prometheus to expose metrics and view output on Grafana

Has a dummy traffic simulator to try and replicate client interactions and generate responses

Interests

I'm learning more about DevOps culture every day!