Jay Jaewon Kim
Principal Engineer
About
Software Engineer with 17 years of experience in hardware-software integration and real-time systems. Built and shipped platform-level software across production hardware at Samsung; currently integrating and stabilizing autonomy software in customer environments at Shield AI.
United States
San Francisco Bay Area
Information Technology & Services
Software Development, Embedded Systems, Mobile Applications, Networking, Internet of Things, Smart TV
Experience

Principal Engineer
Hanwha Vision America
Carlsbad, CA

Staff Software Engineer
Seoul, South Korea
Developed a video analysis service in C++, integrating the YOLO12 model to detect key moments in smartphone videos; redesigned the streaming pipeline to optimize camera frame processing and improve CPU/GPU utilization, reducing execution time by 50%.

Staff Software Engineer
Mountain View, California, United States
Designed an Android Health data service integrating user data with a Llama 3.2-based pipeline to extract entities, relationships, and trends for a knowledge graph, enabling personalized health insights.

Startup Side Project
Holeman
Seoul, South Korea
Developed an IoT solution providing precise distance information for golfers, including GPS/LoRa sensor devices, a LoRaWAN network server, a Firebase backend, and smartwatch apps on Android Wear OS (Kotlin) and watchOS (Swift). Conducted pilot operations in collaboration with several golf courses in South Korea.

Staff Software Engineer
Seoul, South Korea
Led software development for the Samsung Ballie smart home robot (CES 2020), implementing human pose tracking using C++, ROS2, MediaPipe and GStreamer; optimized video stream processing from 2 FPS to 8 FPS through dataset fine-tuning. Developed an Ethernet-based automotive communication protocol for an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) system using C++, Java and JNI, enabling Android Auto integration and reliable data transfer.

Senior Software Engineer
Seoul, South Korea
Designed and implemented the Resource-Oriented Architecture (ROA) communication protocol over CoAP, based on Wi-Fi and Ethernet for IoT devices, and integrated into the IoTivity open-source project. Managed deployments and troubleshooting, achieving a 25% improvement in software stability. Developed a low-power Bluetooth/BLE communication protocol between Android smartphones and smartwatch devices, improving connection reliability and reducing power consumption by 20%.

Software Engineer
Techdigm Inc.
Busan, South Korea
Designed a data structure and converted data from various formats (PPT, DOC, XLS, RTF) into an internal standardized format, enhancing compatibility by 95%. This was a key feature of the office suite software commercialized as ‘Techdigm Office’.

Research Engineer
Iestek
Busan, South Korea
Developed GUI applications using GDI, GDI+, Cairo, Direct2D for ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System) software based on the IHO S-57/IHO S-52 Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) standard.
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