Summary
Hozoon Kim is a seasoned Data Engineer with 11 years of experience building data and AI platforms at SK C&C, currently focused on data platform development, metadata ingestion, and Open Table Format adoption for data lakes. He has led end-to-end platform initiatives—from design and provisioning of Hadoop and ML tooling on Kubernetes to real-time Spark Streaming workflows and Kubeflow-based MLOps—balancing hands-on engineering with product lifecycle and quality management. His background spans low-level 3D rendering and game server development to enterprise-grade data engineering, giving him a rare systems-to-platform perspective. Practical expertise with Kafka, Redis on K8s, CI/CD and dynamic rule engines (Drools) enables him to operationalize complex streaming and batch pipelines. Based in Gyeonggi, South Korea, he pairs deep technical leadership with an eye for developer productivity and reproducible ML delivery. An understated strength is his track record of translating research-grade tooling into production-ready services that scale across organizational needs.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor, Computer Science, bachelor, Computer Science at Hoseo University
English