Summary
Changnam Hong is a software engineer at Apple with 10 years of experience building large-scale user-facing iOS apps and browser features, currently contributing to Safari across Apple platforms. A UC Irvine Software Engineering graduate with a perfect academic record, he previously spent four years developing NAVER’s iOS app for 20 million daily users, focusing on polished UI/animations and developer productivity tooling. He interned at Apple before joining full-time, driving features from ideation to deployment while collaborating with WebKit, HIG, and cross-functional teams. Passionate about build systems, debugging, and automated repair, he is studying those areas to turn research into practical tooling. An active technical writer since 2016, he’s published over 70 articles and helped foster knowledge sharing at NAVER through TechShare.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
4.0/4.0, 4.0/4.0 at UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences