# Joon Kim

> Joon Kim is a founding engineer at MarqVision whose route into brand-protection technology runs through mixed-reality research at Georgia Tech, site reliability engineering at Mailchimp, and an early consumer app that reached more than 30,000 downloads. He joined MarqVision's founding team after years of interest in startups and has helped build systems spanning backend, frontend and cloud infrastructure, later presenting the company's work on seller intelligence, AI-assisted enforcement and digital piracy protection.

- **Role:** Founding Engineer at MarqVision
- **Organizations:** MarqVision, Mailchimp, Georgia Institute of Technology, Infosys, Republic of Korea Army
- **Education:** Computer Science undergraduate studies, Georgia Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** First author of Mixed Reality for Learning Programming at IDC 2019., Received a Best Work in Progress award and honorable mention at IDC 2019 for mixed-reality programming education research., Co-authored Augmenting Coding: Augmented Reality for Learning Programming, recognized with a best poster award at Chinese CHI 2018.

## Career timeline

- **2015-2016** — Served as a squad leader in the Republic of Korea Army.
- **2016-2019** — Worked as a research assistant at Georgia Tech, including mixed-reality and augmented-reality approaches to programming education.
- **2017** — Completed a software engineering internship at Infosys in Bengaluru.
- **2017-2018** — Co-created Memeois, a meme-sharing app that exceeded 30,000 downloads and became a top-six finalist in Georgia Tech's InVenture Prize.
- **2018** — Completed a site reliability engineering internship at Mailchimp; co-authored an augmented-reality programming education paper that won a Chinese CHI best poster award.
- **2019** — Published first-author work on mixed reality for learning programming; the project received a Best Work in Progress award and honorable mention at IDC 2019.
- **2019-2021** — Worked at Mailchimp as a Site Reliability Engineer II and then Site Reliability Engineer III.
- **2021-present** — Joined MarqVision's founding team and serves as a founding engineer.
- **2022** — Discussed building Seller Intelligence in roughly six weeks through close work among product, design and engineering.
- **2025** — Presented MarqVision's product launches and digital-piracy protection work in company events and on-demand sessions.

## Achievements

- First author of Mixed Reality for Learning Programming at IDC 2019.
- Received a Best Work in Progress award and honorable mention at IDC 2019 for mixed-reality programming education research.
- Co-authored Augmenting Coding: Augmented Reality for Learning Programming, recognized with a best poster award at Chinese CHI 2018.
- Built Memeois with collaborators, reaching more than 30,000 downloads and the top six of Georgia Tech's InVenture Prize.
- Helped build MarqVision's early backend, frontend and cloud technology as a founding engineer.
- Contributed to the cross-functional development of MarqVision's Seller Intelligence product in roughly six weeks.

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Appeared as a founding engineer in MarqVision's IPx LA program and in a product-launch recap covering the Brand Exposure Report, unauthorized-sales tools and advanced AI detection.
- **2025-09** — MarqVision announced a $48 million Series B, bringing company-reported total funding to $90 million; Kim remained listed as a founding engineer during the company's expansion.
- **2025-09** — Presented an on-demand session on livestream protection, including piracy detection, enforcement and case studies involving apps and live sports.
- **2025-09** — Co-presented a MarqVision webinar on AI-generated piracy, streaming clones and the use of automated detection and enforcement.
- **2024-10** — Publicly celebrated MarqVision's additional $16 million Series A financing and the launch of its generative-AI product suite, Marq AI.

## Links

- Website: https://www.marqvision.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joonkim123
- GitHub: https://github.com/joshua31101

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Last updated: 2026-09-27