Bongjae Chang
Software Developer, Team Leader at KAKAO
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolBongjae Chang is a seasoned software developer and team leader with 15 years of experience designing high-performance, highly available server-side systems and APIs. Based in Seoul, he has led backend and platform work at KAKAO and TmaxSoft, contributing to the commercial success of Kakao's partnership-driven platform and the enterprise JEUS application server. An active open-source committer and creator, he authored grizzly-memcached and grizzly-thrift and contributes to Eclipse Grizzly, Shoal and AsyncHttpClient, blending deep JVM networking expertise with practical product impact. He served on JSR expert groups for JCache and Java EE (JSR316/342), reflecting both standards-level influence and implementation experience. Known for tackling kernel-to-cloud problems, he brings a rare combination of low-level network/security development and large-scale distributed systems architecture.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mathematics & Computer Science, B.S., Mathematics & Computer Science at Yonsei University
Github Skills (31)
asynchronous10
jvm10
non-blocking10
netty10
async10
grizzly10
http10
comet10
websocket10
networking10
java10
glassfish10
http-client10
http-server10
nio10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-ee4j/glassfish-grizzly-ahc
Feb 2022 - Jun 2026
Contributions:1 review, 13 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years 4 months
glassfishgrizzlyjava
carryel/grizzly
Sep 2024 - Jun 2026
Grizzly
Contributions:1 PR, 51 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 9 months
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