Jihye Hong
Software Engineer at Igalia
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolJihye Hong is a software engineer with over a decade of experience building web platform features and APIs, currently advancing open-source browser capabilities at Igalia from Seoul. She has driven high-impact work across Chromium and Gecko—designing a Dictionary API prototype, authoring the search-highlight CSS spec, and implementing content-visibility: auto in Gecko—while collaborating with partners like Google. Her background at LG includes shipping a Blink-based browser engine for webOS, incubating the CSS Spatial Navigation spec and releasing a widely used spatial-navigation polyfill, demonstrating both standards leadership and pragmatic tooling. Before returning to engineering, she spent a year as a senior investment manager evaluating and managing investments in software platforms, quantum computing, and AI startups, sharpening her ability to assess technical and business risk. Fluent in specification editing, prototyping, and cross-team partnership, she blends standards-level thinking with hands-on front-end and browser engineering.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, 컴퓨터 공학(소프트웨어), First Class Honours, Bachelor's degree, 컴퓨터 공학(소프트웨어), First Class Honours at 이화여자대학교Master's degree, 컴퓨터 공학(소프트웨어), Master's degree, 컴퓨터 공학(소프트웨어) at 한국과학기술원(KAIST)
Korean, English
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Github Skills (5)
responsive-design10
javascript10
user-interface10
html9
css9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/csswg-drafts
Nov 2017 - Sep 2018
CSS Working Group Editor Drafts
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 33 PRs, 66 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jihye primarily contributed to the front-end development of a calendar application. Their work focused on implementing spatial navigation for improved user interaction, addressing responsive layout issues, and adding an options field for navigation rules. The commits demonstrate modifications to the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files to enhance user experience and fix layout errors.
cssworking-groupdrafts
WICG/spatial-navigation
Jan 2019 - Aug 2021
Directional focus navigation with arrow keys
Contributions:15 commits, 175 PRs, 489 pushes in 2 years 7 months
spatial-navigationnavigationbararrowkeyspositioning
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