James Kang

New York, NY · [email protected]

Experience

UBS

Developed new functionality for the company’s risk management service, increasing data generation by +30%.
Developed an Azure cloud-based security app via Spring/React serving over 800+ users with a focus on robust security and scalability.
Designed and automated end-to-end tests via Java Cucumber, enabling efficient CI/CD testing for 100+ scenarios via Gitlab Pipelines.
Developed Oauth2 Azure AD authorization integration using Spring Security that ensures application security within 15+ applications.

September 2021 - Present

Broadridge

Built and enhanced front and backend features for Broadridge’s proxy voting webapp used by hundreds of businesses daily.
Developed scalable SQL stored procedures that allows Broadridge’s proxy meetings to be accessed by 100+ businesses.
Worked alongside business teams to develop a multi-threaded meeting prediction system that attracted 10+ new business clients.
Designed and implemented API security authentication flow for Broadridge’s EU data encryption initiative
Developed company’s CI/CD pipelines using Apache Groovy to reduce average deployment time by 90%.

May 2019 - September 2021

IHS Markit – S&P Global

Developed scripts/procedures to automate health checks of stock pricing apps responsible for processing 23 million datapoints daily.
Provided production support for 6 applications used by 1000+ customers.
Developed and maintained scheduler for 300+ pricing and reference data batch jobs.
Resolved operation of SLA reference data application during SEV1 production outages.

July 2017 - May 2019

Healthie

Developed Ruby on Rails MVC automated integration tests using RSpec to increase deployment reliability.
Enhanced front-end design of company’s website homepage visited by +100,000 users.

February 2017 - May 2017

IHS Markit – S&P Global

Developed a VBA excel JIRA ticket tracker to automate tracking of 30+ daily tickets for a 8 member team.
Worked with product and technical teams to design an advertising service that won first place winner in Markit’s 2016 North American Innovation Group Competition.

June 2016 - August 2016

Nature's Bounty

Assembled and installed OS on blade servers critical to factory warehouse production
Collaborated with an enterprise architecture team to construct a new IT database project

June 2015 - August 2015

Bachelor of Arts

Computer Science

GPA: 3.4/4.0

May 2017

Programming Languages & Tools

Framework/Libraries

https://www.thisautomobiledoesnotexist.com/

This webapp displays vehicle images generated by StyleGAN Machine learning AI
On average delivers 200,000-750,000 monthly requests from 77 different countries. Featured on https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/
Python, Java, Spring, Thymeleaf, Bootstrap, Javascript/HTML/CSS, Cloudflare, Heroku

https://www.getflightpaths.com/

a multi-destination flight search service created to help travelers find the cheapest flight combinations possible
Utilizes Java Spring MVC, Thymeleaf, bootstrap, jQuery, CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. Launched on Heroku

http://nycmapdata.herokuapp.com/

This web-app allows users to interact with a map of NYC detailing average household income, sum household population, and disposable income by region.
Node.js, JavaScript, Mapbox API, EJS/Express, Heroku

takes in user input (tip, tax, number of attending people) to calculate a grand total, separates tip amounts and sends emails of the receipt
Utilizes Java, Android SDK, XML