John Kim
CS student at the University of Virginia and software engineer at N2O. I like designing and building apps, researching AI, and doing competitive math and programming.
I also love skiing!
About
Education
University of Virginia
August 2025 - May 2028B.S. in Computer Science
GPA: 4.0 / 4.0
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
August 2021 - June 2025Advanced Studies Diploma
GPA: 4.463 / 4.0
Experience
Software Engineer
N2O (Deaver Varney LLC)
- • Set the technical direction of client projects and owned them end-to-end (design, build, test, deploy)
- • Replaced a client's enterprise learning platform: authoring editor, rendering for 600+ courses, and delivery
- • Took the initiative to build the team's AI agent skills, led by a playbook of engineering and UI standards
- • Built the company's time tracker and a platform turning email, calendar, and code activity into team analytics
Undergraduate Researcher
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab: Agentic Behavior Modeling
- • Researched agentic AI and human-aligned decision-making in LLM agents through the strategy game Diplomacy
- • Applied steering vectors and prompting techniques to align agent behavior with distinct human playstyles
Full Stack Developer Intern
MySmaX (AIoT Startup), Seoul National University
- • Deployed an AI agent automating Samsung, LG, and other smart devices via Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- • Applied machine learning-based anomaly detection to analyze real-time IoT device telemetry
- • Built MySmaX's production website frontend in Next.js as primary contributor, implementing Figma designs
Skills
Programming Languages
Python
Java
C++
TypeScript
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
Lua
AI & ML
PyTorch
TensorFlow
pandas
LangChain
HuggingFace
Agno
Unsloth
MCP
Frameworks & Tools
React
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
Figma
FastAPI
Git
Docker
Linux Shell
Projects
Design
Some of my UI and UX work for projects I owned, with my deliberate choices shown.
NOS Capture
N2O's desktop app for tracking time.
Hoos' Plan
A course planner for UVA students.