Career
Experience
Mappedin·Senior Software Engineer
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026Canada (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.

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MedStack·Senior Software Engineer
Jun 2021 – Nov 2024Canada (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.

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RT7 Incorporated·Staff Software Engineer
May 2011 – May 2021Toronto, 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.

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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