Giheok Nam
Software Engineer at Instagram
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGiheok Nam is a software engineer with nine years of experience building production-grade Android applications, cloud microservices, and performance-focused systems. A UC Davis Computer Science and Engineering graduate now based in New York, he has shipped commercial Java/Kotlin apps and worked on a digital assistant SDK that spans C++, JNI, and Android layers. At Telenav he improved navigation performance for millions of vehicles by introducing multithreading, memory caching strategies, and Redis-backed cloud offload, and he now contributes to infrastructure and features at Instagram. He bridges edge and cloud concerns with hands-on experience in Spring Boot microservices, Redis, and native integrations, showing a rare comfort across mobile front-ends, native code, and backend systems. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to optimize tight resource constraints while maintaining scalable architectures.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Senior, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Senior at University of California, Davis
English, Korean, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (3)
ios7
assembly6
x866
Github contributions (5)
jrgee/ecs193hummingbirds
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 66 pushes, 28 branches in 4 months
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