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Junior at Rice University studying Computer Science. I'm currently interning on eBay's Cloud Platform team, building Kubernetes infrastructure for a 100K+ node private cloud. This fall, I'll join Uber's Compute Platform team, running Kubernetes orchestration for Uber's workloads.

I like building distributed systems that handle real load: a distributed cache doing 50K RPS, Kubernetes infrastructure orchestrating fleets of nodes, and backend services under real production traffic. I care about the details that keep things running.

Eric Kim
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Skills & Tools

What I work with.

PythonPython
GoGo
C++C++
TypeScriptTypeScript
JavaJava
SQLSQL
KubernetesKubernetes
DockerDocker
AWSAWS
GCPGCP
LinuxLinux
GitGit
ReactReact
Next.jsNext.js
FastAPIFastAPI
PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
RedisRedis
MongoDBMongoDB

Work

Where I've been.

Uber

Uber

Sunnyvale, CA

Software Engineer Intern

Sept – Dec 2026

Starting this fall on Uber's Compute Platform team, running Kubernetes orchestration for all of Uber's workloads.

eBay

eBay

San Jose, CA

Software Engineer Intern

May – Aug 2026

Interning on eBay's Cloud Platform team, building Kubernetes operators and CRDs in Go across a 100K+ node private cloud.

Projects

Things I've built.

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01
GoCache

GoCache

Distributed cache engine

In-memory cache in Go — 50K+ RPS at <1ms latency, LRU eviction, write-ahead logging, consistent hashing, and automatic leader election failover.

GoDockerPrometheusTCP
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02
OwlConnect

OwlConnect

AI mentor-matching platform

Won 2nd place at HackRice 15 (500+ participants). Real-time WebSocket streaming and LangChain AI agents for instant mentor discovery across 500+ profiles.

LangChainFastAPIMongoDBWebSockets
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03
LifeLink

LifeLink

AI health assistant

AI health assistant serving 500+ users — fine-tuned Mistral-7B with LoRA, RAG pipeline over medical documents, <1s response time on AWS EC2.

Next.jsFlaskAWSMistral-7B
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