Career

Experience

Mappedin·Senior Software Engineer
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026

Canada (Remote)

  • Led ETL migration from ClickHouse/MongoDB to Snowflake, covering ~4B records.
  • Designed and built a high-throughput data processing application into Snowflake handling ~1.8B events/year.
  • Strengthened platform security by migrating authentication token algorithms.
  • Reduced critical web application page load time by ~80%.
  • Implemented OTEL across microservices in the ecosystem.
Mappedin (https://www.mappedin.com/), Indoor mapping/wayfinding solution.
Mappedin (https://www.mappedin.com/), Indoor mapping/wayfinding solution.

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MedStack·Senior Software Engineer
Jun 2021 – Nov 2024

Canada (Remote)

  • Built REST APIs for AWS, achieving feature parity with existing Azure offerings.
  • Led frontend modernization, migrating Ruby-based UI to React for better maintainability and velocity.
  • Migrated VM monitoring from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch to improve sustainability and cost control.
  • Implemented SIEM solution using OpenSearch and Filebeat.
  • Built cloud resource metrics APIs to provide real-time operational insights.
  • Developed Azure cost-saving scripts to find optimization opportunities and reduce infrastructure spend.
  • Created automated Azure credential expiry warning reports to prevent outages and improve reliability.
  • Authored ~90% of on-call playbooks, cutting incident resolution time and improving on-call effectiveness.
MedStack (https://www.medstack.com/), HIPAA-compliant platform to build, maintain and audit digital health application.
MedStack (https://www.medstack.com/), HIPAA-compliant platform to build, maintain and audit digital health application.

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RT7 Incorporated·Staff Software Engineer
May 2011 – May 2021

Toronto, ON

  • Designed and built a full-featured POS system integrated with multiple payment gateways
  • Scaled to ~300 transactions/day/store across ~500 US & Canada stores, processing ~50M yearly.
  • Built a comprehensive BI analytics web platform for store and franchise owners.
  • Sales, inventory, tax, and tip reports
  • Customer management
  • Rewards & gift card management
  • Employee management
  • Advertising management
  • Engineered backend systems processing ~55M records per year.
  • Built backend APIs for mobile ordering and rewards apps integrated with the POS ecosystem.
  • Fully integrated third-party delivery services (Postmates, Trackin) into the POS ecosystem.
  • Supported ~1M transactions per year with high reliability.
  • Led on-premises to AWS migration, improving scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
BI Analytics Platform - Sales reports
BI Analytics Platform - Sales reports

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Core Skills

System Design & Architecture
REST APIs, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Scalability, High Availability, Load Balancing
Languages & Frameworks
TypeScript, Ruby, Java, Bash, Node.js, Nest.js, Roda (Ruby), React
Cloud & DevOps
AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, Docker, K8s (CKAD), CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, Github, Buildkite, Jenkins
Data & Analytics
Snowflake, ClickHouse, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Postgres, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis, Superset
Observability & Debugging
OpenTelemetry (OTEL), Sentry, PagerDuty, Grafana(Loki, Tempo), Kibana
Security
OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, API security protocol, SIEM (OpenSearch + filebeat)

Education

Korea Aerospace University

BSc Information & Telecommunication Technology · 2008