Hyung Yoo
Staff Solution Architect at honeycomb.io
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHyung Yoo is a Staff Solution Architect at Honeycomb.io with over 20 years in enterprise software and a decade-plus focus on observability, data lineage, and cloud-native systems. Based in Austin, he blends hands-on engineering with product and sales-facing roles, having moved from engineering and MDM at Oracle and IBM to product leadership at Astronomer and solutions architecture for generative AI and observability. He is an active open-source contributor to projects like OpenLineage and Apache Airflow, adding Airflow OpenTelemetry tracing, improved Airflow docs, and enhanced OpenLineage Airflow integrations and SQL parsing tooling. Known for turning customer problems into concrete product requirements, he has a track record of shipping operational features for runtime observability and lineage at scale. His background combines a CS degree with an MBA, giving him both technical depth and business-first product instincts. Colleagues rely on him to bridge engineering, product, and customer success when launching observability solutions into production.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at Sogang UniversityMaster of Business & Administration Marketing, Master of Business & Administration Marketing at Yonsei University
English, Korean
Github Skills (23)
apache-airflow10
data-pipelines10
python10
workflow-engine10
cicd10
data-lineage10
airflow10
opentelemetry10
orchestration10
orchestra10
data-pipeline10
devops10
java9
sql9
javas9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLineage/OpenLineage
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
An Open Standard for lineage metadata collection
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 52 commits, 44 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Hyung primarily contributed to the OpenLineage project by enhancing its integration with Airflow, adding static code analysis using MyPy and PMD, and implementing a new feature for event forwarding via HTTP. They also worked on improving the proxy's JSON message formatting for better readability. Furthermore, they developed a standalone Python script for SQL parsing testing within the OpenLineage ecosystem and added a dialect option.
data-analyticsdata-managementcqllineagemetadata-management
apache/airflow
Jan 2022 - Feb 2025
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:75 reviews, 13 PRs, 150 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Hyung's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Apache Airflow project's core functionality and operational aspects. They contributed documentation updates explaining key concepts like logical dates, and also added troubleshooting documentation. Furthermore, the user implemented OpenTelemetry tracing for Apache Airflow and added trace tags to task instances. The changes included modifications in the scheduler and executor files to integrate and utilize OpenTelemetry tracing features.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
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