Jeehong Lee
Development Team Lead at NAVER Corp
South Korea
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJeehong Lee is a Development Team Lead with 12 years of experience building back-end systems and data platforms at major Korean tech companies including NAVER and LINE. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source like the popular Elasticsearch Java Rest Client—with team leadership, guiding cross-functional efforts from data engineering to blockchain-related backend work. Based in Seongnam, he excels at turning complex search and indexing problems into reliable, production-grade services and has a track record of improving APIs and observability through enhanced logging and snapshot features. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and people-focused, equally comfortable shipping code and mentoring engineers.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Kyungnam University
English, Japanese, Korean
Github Skills (13)
javas10
api-rest10
elasticsearch10
rest-api10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing9
logging8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
searchbox-io/Jest
May 2014 - Jun 2016
Elasticsearch Java Rest Client.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 6 PRs, 32 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jeehong primarily contributed to the development of Elasticsearch Java Rest Client, as seen from the modifications to the `jest-common` and `jest` modules. Their work included adding new features such as `TypeExist`, `indexTypeExist` and `typeExist` along with corresponding test cases. Moreover, they enhanced the logging capabilities by adding request and response logging. The user further added snapshot related API's and made improvements in existing API's.
typesensefulltext-searchsynonymsrest-clientjava-rest
happyprg/iceberg
Feb 2022 - May 2024
Apache Iceberg
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
apache-icebergapachebig-datajavaiceberg
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