Daniel (Jawon) Kim

Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Azure Core with a focus on scalable backend and distributed systems.

Location Seattle, WA

Focus Reliability • Scale-out architecture • Data pipelines

Professional Experience

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Microsoft Software Engineer II — Azure Resource Graph (RBAC)

Mar 2022 – Present • Redmond, WA

Owned a large-scale RBAC ingestion pipeline processing ~650GB of data per 12-hour window to keep authorization data fresh.
Onboarded core RBAC resources for query via Azure Resource Graph, serving ~60K user requests per hour for customer lookups.
Designed and implemented a regionally isolated, pull-based ingestion mechanism to support safe deployment and regional results.
Built a BCDR timer task to keep RBAC data live and queryable during potential partner outages and internal upstream failures.
Designed cell-based infrastructure to partition datasets at ingestion time and synchronize partition metadata with query-serving nodes, removing scale-up limits caused by full-dataset replication.
Extended ingestion and serving pipelines across multiple Azure cloud environments, including sovereign and air-gapped clouds, while preserving consistency and operational guardrails.

C# Azure Distributed systems Ingestion BCDR Scale-out

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Associate — Software Engineer

Jun 2018 – Mar 2022 • New York, NY

Developed a Python-based risk management system to execute trades with 80+ clients connected through a firm-provided API.
Implemented automatic RFQ spotting and treasury hedge features in Java to enhance direct client connectivity.
Created Splunk analytics dashboards to visualize live statistics on global RFQ routing results for leadership.
Built a self-updating directory of governed business terms using a Mule server, exposing 7,500+ terms on an internal search portal.
Designed a scalable workflow to import up to 100,000 records into a Collibra data governance platform.

Python Java Splunk APIs Data governance

ROK Army / Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Operations Sergeant

Sep 2015 – Jun 2017 • Busan / Seoul, KR

Controlled and translated 60+ fragmentary orders issued monthly across joint services.
Edited and compiled the quarterly Ministry of National Defense intelligence report book for the National Assembly of Korea.
Contributed to the development and standardization of operating procedures across joint operations units.
Managed logistics and administrative operations for a rapid response unit, supporting personnel readiness in Busan.

University of Pennsylvania (SEAS)

M.C.I.T. • 2020 – 2022 • GPA 4.0

Master of Computer and Information Technology.

NYU Stern School of Business

B.S. Finance & Data Science • magna cum laude • 2013 – 2019

Computer Science minor. Study abroad: NYU Prague (Fall 2014).

Languages

C# Python Java C SQL KQL MEL

Certifications

Interests

A little personality (without going off the rails).

Home cooking Cocktail craftsmanship International travel