Iltaek Kwon
Engineering Manager at Karrot
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolIltaek Kwon is an engineering manager with nine years of experience building high-performance ad-tech platforms and end-to-end advertiser experiences, currently leading Karrot’s Advertiser Platform and its core DSP and financial rails. He combines hands-on systems work—from ad retrieval algorithms and low-latency landing systems at Coupang to enterprise middleware at TmaxSoft—with a pragmatic leadership style that emphasizes early alignment, leverage-driven design, and rapid, reliable delivery. Iltaek has driven measurable business impact (award-winning product launches, major latency and deployment improvements) and now pioneers AI-assisted engineering workflows—specialized agents, CI/CD quality gates, and documentation-first practices—to increase velocity without sacrificing security or quality. Based in Seoul and an ABD Ph.D. candidate in computer science, he blends research rigor with production discipline and a knack for reducing operational toil while scaling teams and systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Candidate (ABD) Computer Science, Ph.D Candidate (ABD) Computer Science at Hanyang University
Korean, English
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Github Skills (19)
java9
jpa9
react8
spring-boot8
typescript7
graphql6
netflix-dgs6
gradle6
kotlin6
mvc6
alfred-workflow5
mysql5
fundamentals4
jdbc4
alfred3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
iltaek/java-racingcar
Oct 2019 - Apr 2024
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Contributions:2 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 6 months
javajpa
iltaek/java-racingcar-mw
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
자동차 경주용 게임을 관리하는 저장소
Contributions:5 PRs, 4 pushes, 7 branches in 19 days
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