Summary
Jihoon Kang is a Software Engineer III in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience optimizing large-scale Android platform builds for speed, accuracy, and developer productivity. At Google he led trunk-based migration efforts and converted partition packaging from Make to Soong, cutting clean and incremental analysis times by about 30%, and previously simplified Java API stub generation during a move toward Bazel. He combines deep build-system expertise with practical performance wins that directly accelerate platform developer workflows. His background spans reinforcement learning prototyping, signal-processing analytics, and hands-on C++ and Python engineering from internships and research roles. A former sergeant in the Korean Army, he brings disciplined leadership and operational rigor to complex engineering projects.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bugil Academy
Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese