Chiyoung Seo
VP Of Engineering, Head Of Cloud Team at Samsung Electronics
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChiyoung Seo is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years building and operating large-scale cloud infrastructure, storage systems, and SRE organizations across top tech firms. Currently VP of Engineering and Head of Cloud Team at Samsung Mobile eXperience in Sunnyvale, he previously led cloud storage, databases, and core services at Airbnb, Pinterest, Quora, and Couchbase. A founding engineer and tech lead at Couchbase, he has deep hands-on expertise in distributed key-value storage—evidenced by contributions to the ForestDB engine—and a Ph.D. in computer science from USC. He blends research-rooted systems understanding with pragmatic operational leadership, running AI GPU infra and reliability engineering at scale. Colleagues describe him as a leader who still dives into core engine and race-condition fixes, not just strategy.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of Southern California
Github Skills (13)
databases10
c-language10
wal10
cprogramming-language10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
concurrency9
data-structure9
data-structures9
algorithms8
testing8
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
couchbase/forestdb
Aug 2013 - Nov 2016
A Fast Key-Value Storage Engine Based on Hierarchical B+-Tree Trie
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:483 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Chiyoung primarily focused on enhancing the ForestDB engine, contributing improvements related to iteration and data storage. Their work involved modifications to core components of the engine, including changes to the iterator and improvements related to handling and retaining deleted documents, and addressing race conditions during compaction. The user's commits suggest they were involved in backend development activities, focusing on code-level enhancements to the functionality of the database engine.
nosql-databasehierarchicalstoragepersistent-storagetrie
membase/ep-engine
Sep 2010 - Mar 2016
Contributions:1137 commits in 5 years 7 months
memorydatabasepersistentin-memory-databasein-memory
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