Brian Hong
Technical Advisor at Devsisters
Seoul Incheon Metropolitan Area South Korea
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Top SchoolBrian Hong is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on engineer with 15 years building scalable web and mobile systems, currently serving as Technical Advisor after a term as CTO at Devsisters. He blends server architecture, product development, and machine learning/NLP expertise, having led game server development and driven distributed computing solutions. A polyglot programmer comfortable in Python, C, Java, Objective-C, Erlang and JavaScript, he has a track record of performance and stability work—evident in his open-source QUIC contributions that improved stream handling, memory safety, and cross-platform builds. His background includes co-founding a startup, an internship on Google Translate’s SM T team, and academic roots from KAIST, reflecting both product intuition and research-driven problem solving. Colocated in the Seoul–Incheon area, he often pairs pragmatic engineering with low-level protocol and infrastructure improvements that quietly raise system reliability.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
English, Korean
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Github Skills (15)
build-system10
c-language10
go10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
zlib10
quic10
networking10
openssl9
macos9
protocol-buffers8
boost-asio6
syntax6
boost6
mysql6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
devsisters/goquic
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
QUIC support for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Brian's contributions primarily involve implementing and refining QUIC support for Go within the `goquic` repository. They added features for user stream handling, including processing data, handling "fin" reads, and stream closures. Moreover, the user refactored the packet-sending code and fixed memory leaks, enhancing the library's stability and performance.
golangquichttp3tls13ietf
devsisters/libquic
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
QUIC, a multiplexed stream transport over UDP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to adding and modifying the `zlib` third-party library within the `libquic` repository. They implemented custom zlib integration, including modifying CRC32 calculations. Additionally, the user added a CMake build file, enabling the project to be built with CMake, and added support for the Mac OS platform. The user also synced the project with upstream Chromium changes, incorporating protocol buffer libraries.
non-blockingquicprotocolwebtransportstream
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