Sung Sil Kim

About me

I'm a senior engineer at an audio streaming company based in Stockholm.

Previously, I've exited from a video chat application startup based in South Korea and received B.A. and M.A. degree in computer science and social computing. My areas of interest are:

computer vision for HCI
ML applications
web frameworks
native and hybrid mobile development
container orchestration
serverless backend development
embedded systems
real-time media streaming

To know more, refer to my cv below.

Experience

Spotify

Stockholm, Sweden • Mar 2022 - present

Spotify integration on smart TV platforms and gaming consoles: Samsung Tizen, LG WebOS, Google Android TV, Sony PS4/5, Microsoft Xbox ( press )
Video ads integration on Roku ( article ) and Android TV

WAVE

Seoul, South Korea • Apr 2017 - Jan 2022

Custom in-house WebRTC media streaming clusters with enhanced functionalities, containerized REST API server, and a horizontally scalable event-sourcing backend
CI/CD pipelines for a React Native application, along with logging and data processing pipelines for visualization and monitoring
Youtube

KAIST UVR Lab

Daejeon, South Korea • May 2014 - Jun 2015

Human Centric VR distributive research at Samsung Digital Media & Communications
User-independent face landmark detection and tracking algorithm for spatial AR interaction using feature enhancements based on RGB and depth images

PLRG @ KAIST

Daejeon, South Korea • Aug 2011 - Jan 2012

Basim: an educational programming language in Hangul and computer science curriculum

ETRI

Daejeon, South Korea • Jul 2011 - Aug 2011

GENI: networking and distributed systems testbed federation adaptor development

Education

KAIST

Daejeon, South Korea • 2015 — 2019

M.S. in Graduate School of Culture Technology, Social Computing Lab

KAIST

Daejeon, South Korea • 2009 — 2015

B.S. in Computer Science

Projects

Blend: Interactive video chat app

Daejeon, South Korea • 2016

Client and server development of 1:1 WebRTC, collage layouts, filters and effects in Java, Swift and Python. website, demo

ToGather: Campus-based anonymous community app

Daejeon, South Korea • 2015

Client and server development of anonymous group chats, feeds and notifications app in Java, Obj-C and Python. website, demo

AIA Campaign: Mother's First Song

Seoul, South Korea • 2015

Training supervised sign language detection model using Kinect and LeapMotion website, demo

Publications & Talks

AWS Summit Seoul '21

Seoul, South Korea • 2021

Invited talk on Architecting High-Performance Video Chat Platform for Two Millions Users

Augmented Human '16

Geneva, Switzerland • 2016

NUI-based Photo-realistic AR Authoring System for Interior Design

KIISE '15 (Best Paper Award)

Jeju, South Korea • 2015

Integrating Facial Expression Detection and Mobile Lockscreen for Quantified Self

Additional Links

Resume

Social Links

Github: https://github.com/realnumber/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/realnumber/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realnumberrr/
Website: https://sungkim.vercel.app/