THEO KIM

I build backend systems, cloud platforms, and product workflows that make complex operations readable, reliable, and ready for production.

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Spring Boot / GraphQL / Multi-tenant DB

Hospital Core Platform & Automatic Reception

Core reception and reservation flows for hospital products, including reservation API reliability, patient visit logic, and customer-specific data boundaries.

  • Designed and maintained reception logic from patient visit through clinical workflow handoff.
  • Hardened reservation API paths through Slack webhook cleanup, taxable/non-taxable fields, query optimization, slow web-reservation POST/PATCH fixes, reservation-count sync locking, reservation-log trigger cleanup, and CRM list polling optimization.
KotlinSpring BootGraphQLSQL ServerPostgreSQL
EKS / Terraform / Observability

Kubernetes Platform Modernization

Helped move a legacy cloud platform toward service-oriented architecture, Kubernetes-based deployment, and measurable production observability.

  • Supported Elastic Beanstalk to EKS migration work with Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Rancher, and Kubernetes operations.
  • Advanced monitoring through Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Datadog, CloudWatch logs, and KPI dashboards.
EKSTerraformHelmArgoCDIstio
Quant Research / ML Pipeline / Market Data

ML-Trade: Intraday Futures Research Pipeline

Research-first quant pipeline for MES/ES intraday opportunity selection, turning Databento OHLCV and MBP feeds into clean features, labels, deterministic baselines, and model-ready validation gates.

  • Built the market-data path from raw Databento files into bronze/silver Parquet datasets, strict training matrices, chronological splits, manifests, and reproducible research reports.
  • Designed the research gate around feature information-coefficient reports, strategy-family benchmarks, horizon and roll-rule sensitivity, lookahead audits, MBP microstructure diagnostics, latency/fill/cost stress, and candidate failure attribution.
PythonXGBoostRandom Forestscikit-learnFeature Engineering
XGBoost / Ray RLlib / Optuna / Kubernetes

Borg Agent Orchestrator: Kubernetes Remediation Research

Research system that turns Borg-inspired workload traces and live Kubernetes telemetry into risk and demand predictors, multi-agent remediation decisions, and dual-cluster comparison evidence.

  • Built the six-layer path from Prometheus/JSON ingestion and simulator feature extraction to XGBoost risk/demand models, RLlib PPO policy evaluation, Optuna reward tuning, and scoreboard feedback.
  • Validated the control loop on local Kind clusters with AIOpsLab-style incidents, Prometheus/node-exporter telemetry, HPA/local-Karpenter baselines, live Kubernetes action execution, and repeated-seed policy gates.
PythonXGBoostscikit-learnRay RLlibOptuna

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