Daekwon Kang
Software Engineer at Coupang
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolDaekwon Kang is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating high‑traffic services across e‑commerce, advertising, search, and ERP domains from Seoul. At Coupang he led architecture and infra transformations that halved P95 page latency, cut build times by 77%, and reduced operating costs by over 50%, while introducing chaos testing and developer-friendly debugging modes. He started as the first engineer at an ad agency, automating large data pipelines and saving marketing teams from nightly work through bespoke back-office tools, and has deep Java/Spring expertise across distributed systems, data pipelines, and automation. Daekwon routinely drives measurable productivity and reliability gains—relaunching failed releases, standardizing i18n/timezone handling, and migrating Airflow workloads to shared clusters. Comfortable collaborating across product, infra and ops, he combines hands‑on coding with system‑level thinking and a knack for simplifying complex implementation details.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
전문학사, 컴퓨터 소프트웨어 - Computer Software Engineering, 전문학사, 컴퓨터 소프트웨어 - Computer Software Engineering at 청강문화산업대학 / Chungkang College of Cultural Industries
Korean, English
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Github Skills (43)
gradle10
kotlin10
groovy10
java10
automation9
chaos9
spring-cloud-netflix9
spring8
test-framework8
spring-boot8
testing8
chaos-engineering7
spring-cloud6
hyperlink6
redmine6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ncrash/cbmax
Mar 2013 - Aug 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes in 7 years 6 months
ncrash/programming-note
Jun 2018 - Jan 2025
Improve Programming Skill , Improve Testability Code
Contributions:93 PRs, 183 pushes, 67 branches in 6 years 7 months
tddvalidatorjavajunittestability
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