Summary
Hyungwon Hwang is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web services and embedded systems, currently designing ETL pipelines that deliver metadata to over 100 million Samsung TVs worldwide. A Linux enthusiast and Pythonista, he bridges low-level Linux internals and full-stack web development—having written kernel device drivers, DBus troubleshooting tools, and cloud-native backends using Django, Spring, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS. He led server and CMS work for Samsung TV Plus, improving content discovery across disparate OTT providers, and previously co-founded a web service startup focused on Google web technologies. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he moves fluidly between board bring-up diagnostics and architecting production data pipelines. Educated at KAIST (magna cum laude), he pairs deep systems knowledge with product-driven delivery at scale.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, magna cum laude, BS, Computer Science, magna cum laude at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology