Karen Vivian Kim

Overview

I've spent 14 years on mobile apps - first at HP, now at Workday. Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 332ms to 175ms. Before that: VMware and Google. Yoga every morning.

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Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   May 2026 - Present
   Workday · 5 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Moved 71% of Android traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 20 minutes to under 5.
   • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
2. Senior Android Engineer

   Dec 2023 - Apr 2026
   VMware · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Shipped 27 launches on the Android team without a rollback.
   • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
3. Android Engineer

   Jun 2021 - Dec 2023
   Google · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 399ms to 47ms.
4. Android Engineer

   Sep 2019 - Jun 2021
   Adobe · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 657ms to 117ms.
   • Moved 78% of Android traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Android Engineer

   Nov 2017 - Sep 2019
   HP · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Brought on-call pages for Android down from 30 a week to 1.

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Education

1. University of Florida

   BS, Computer Science
   2007 - 2011