Summary
Sungjin Kim is a seasoned backend and site reliability engineering leader based in Seoul, with a track record of building scalable, highly available systems across e-commerce, cloud, and education platforms. He is currently a Staff Back-end Engineer (SRE) at Coupang, steering reliability, telemetry, and incident response in a fast-paced production environment. His prior roles include SRE Tech Lead at Classting and Senior SRE/DevOps positions at SAP, AWS, and Samsung, giving him deep cloud-native and operations experience. Notably, he led the design of a Grafana-based telemetry stack for an EduTech platform spanning IaaS, PaaS, and FaaS, highlighting a focus on observability and platform reliability. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Hongik University and a Master's in Information Technology from POSTECH, underscoring a strong academic foundation to complement hands-on leadership.
8 years of coding experience