Jaehoon Hwang
Software Engineer at Google
California, United States
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Top SchoolJaehoon Hwang is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building scalable systems at Google after multi-year engineering roles at Amazon and earlier internships on Alexa and Lab126 teams. He holds dual degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from California State University, Fresno and blends systems-level thinking with practical backend development. An open-source contributor to NLTK, he implemented and polished the Paice-Husk stemmer—bringing careful documentation, licensing, and doctest improvements to a widely used NLP library. Based in California, Jaehoon enjoys turning research-grade algorithms into production-ready services and has a track record of shipping data-backed features that improve user experience.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at California State University, Fresno
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Github Skills (10)
algorithm10
nltk10
algorithms10
nlp10
python10
natural-language-processing10
implement10
regular-expression9
doctest8
documentation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nltk/nltk
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
NLTK Source
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 30 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jaehoon primarily contributed to the implementation of the Paice-Husk stemming algorithm within the NLTK library. Their work involved porting the stemmer from another source, cleaning documentation, adding doctests, and fixing code related to rule handling. The user added the necessary license information and also made corrections to existing documentation.
nltkpythonnlpnatural-language-processingmachine-learning
jaehoonhwang/personal_config
Jun 2019 - Oct 2023
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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