Daehyeok Mun
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaehyeok Mun is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in backend systems, DevOps, and tooling using Go, Python, C/C++, Docker, and Linux. Based in Mountain View, he currently works at Google and has a track record of shipping reliability and automation for container and CI ecosystems, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Moby, docker/machine, and minikube. His contributions show a strong focus on robust error handling, driver/platform integrations, and developer-facing features—such as enhancing VCS config commands in jj and implementing retries and cleanup in minikube. Previous roles include building build/test APIs and automation at Faraday Future and migrating game infrastructure to AWS at Nexon, demonstrating a balance of embedded, cloud, and ops experience. He combines research-driven thinking from his M.S. work on containers with practical production fixes that improve observability and developer ergonomics.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Utah State UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Engineering at Hanyang University
English, Korean
Github Skills (36)
git10
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
apidoc10
testing10
configuration-management10
command-line-interface10
dockers10
automation10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
golang10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
moby/moby
Aug 2014 - Apr 2017
The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 12 PRs, 49 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Daehyeok primarily contributed to the backend aspects of the Moby project, focusing on improving error handling and functionality within the Docker engine. Their commits addressed issues such as incorrect error returns in image lookup, adding warning logs for the use of different graph drivers, and logging events for exec create and start API calls. They also refactored code related to UTF-8 support and the json log driver and implemented tests and refactoring for various functionalities within the project.
containerscollaborative-projectgolangcontainer-ecosystemdocker
kubernetes/minikube
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
Run Kubernetes locally
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:25 reviews, 18 commits, 17 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Daehyeok contributed to the `minikube` project by implementing features and addressing issues related to cluster management and functionality. They added the ability to display the number of nodes in the `minikube profile list` output and removed a duplicated conditional statement. They also worked on improving the reliability of the system by implementing retry mechanisms for binary downloads and addressing directory deletion issues. Furthermore, the user migrated and refactored code related to machine name functions and incorporated file copy operations.
containerslocallyk8skubernetescncf
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