Chung-woo Lee is a seasoned data platform and systems software engineer with 12+ years building large-scale backend and ML platforms across Korea’s leading tech companies. He has led cross-functional teams at LINE Plus and Works Mobile, driving ML platform initiatives, vision/NLP/multi-modal model work, and high-throughput services like Talk/VoIP and mail backends. His early database and storage expertise at Altibase and low-level systems work (AIX/Solaris/HP-UX) give him a rare combination of production-grade storage, networking and ML-infrastructure know-how. An active contributor to C++ networking libraries, he has improved Boost.Network’s HTTP client robustness and async timeout handling, reflecting a practical focus on reliability under load. He holds advanced degrees in computer engineering and is expanding into AI/leadership studies via CAIO and SNU-LINE programs, blending deep technical craft with product and organizational impact. Based in South Korea, he is known for turning complex systems problems into scalable, testable solutions that support global services.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS(98), MS(00), Ph.D(08), Computer Engineering, BS(98), MS(00), Ph.D(08), Computer Engineering at Dankook University
SNU-LINE FLP(mini-MBA), SNU-LINE FLP(mini-MBA) at The Graduate School of Business Seoul National University
CAIO Program, CAIO Program at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
The C++ Network Library Project -- header-only, cross-platform, standards compliant networking library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:18 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Chung-woo primarily focused on improvements and fixes related to the Boost.Network library's HTTP client implementation. Their contributions included adding a client timeout option, addressing issues with header handling, fixing parsing of query parameters, and implementing asynchronous timeout handling. Additionally, they addressed bugs and made changes to improve the overall reliability of the network library, as well as added more tests.
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 12 comments in 1 month
thread-safecpppoolingc-plus-plusgeneric
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