Essay evaluator
invented rubrics → every score cites its source
LLM-as-judge with retrieval over real admissions rubrics, so a score points at the sentence it came from.
I ship research ideas as a web tool
Senior engineer
Eight years of Python and Django. Three of us, shipping tools licensed to pharmaceutical partners.
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--year --tag
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2026
Why our x86 images fought my M1, and what actually fixed it
Buildx, platform flags, and the one emulation cost that turned out to be worth paying.
Base62, Snowflake IDs, and the TinyURL question you will be asked
Why the interview answer and the production answer are not the same answer.
Security gates a small team will not disable by Friday
Thresholds that catch real problems without blocking a release nobody can wait on.
What four papers taught me about maintainable code
Research code and production code fail differently. Both fail at the handoff.
2025
Pipeline gates
scanning at every stage → median build time unchanged
Dependency, secret and static analysis wired into GitLab CI for a three-person team, with thresholds nobody has needed to switch off.
2024
AXEL-F
three days per dataset → one request, answered while you wait
Immunologists ranked epitopes by merging prediction output by hand. Now a public IEDB tool, licensed to pharmaceutical partners.
Showing everything, newest first. Writing →
Backend and platform work. I take research and prototype code the last mile: to a web tool, a CLI, an API, or a container a stranger can install and run.
- now
- IEDB Tools, La Jolla Institute for Immunology. Three people, shipping tools licensed to pharmaceutical partners.
- stack
- Python · Django · Docker
- background
- Eight years of Python and Django. Four co-authored papers. BS from UC San Diego, 2018.
- based
- Savannah, Georgia. Remote.
- status
- Open to contract and full-time. Reply time is about a day.
- contact
- hello@lowankim.dev
Research and prototype code that works for the person who wrote it, turned into something a stranger can install and run. That is the work I want.
- work
- Backend and platform. Web tools, CLIs, APIs and containers, plus the packaging and pipeline work that keeps them installable.
- stack
- Python · Django · Docker
- shape
- Contract or full-time. Remote, from Savannah, Georgia.
- proof
- Three worked examples under --work. How I think about them under --writing.
- start
- hello@lowankim.dev. Reply time is about a day.
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