Hoon Jung
Senior Software Engineer at Xero
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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SeniorHoon Jung is a Senior Software Engineer based in Wellington with seven years of experience transitioning from office management to building production web tools that improve business efficiency. After teaching himself web programming to streamline operations, he progressed from prototyping to delivering approved solutions and now shapes bank feeds and homepage widgets at Xero, driving migrations to modern APIs and introducing TypeScript for maintainability. He has hands-on experience automating PDF bank statement parsing, centralising transaction delivery, and refactoring UI components to boost developer productivity and test coverage. Known for turning operational pain points into robust software, Hoon blends product empathy with pragmatic engineering to deliver measurable business impact. Colleagues describe him as curious and growth-oriented—comfortable moving between legacy systems and modern architectures to get things done.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
moq9
nodejs7
utilities6
javascript6
react5
typescript4
date-fns4
spring-boot2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jeannjang/lingo-scribe
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
This is a chrome extension that transforms video streaming platforms like Netflix into an interactive language learning environment. By leveraging existing subtitles, users can practice dictation and improve their language skills while enjoying their favorite content.
Contributions:20 reviews, 17 PRs, 29 pushes in 3 months
Player1789/test1
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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