Jihyeon Y
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJihyeon Y is a Software Engineer II with 8 years of experience building backend systems and data pipelines across large-scale consumer and enterprise products, currently contributing to OneDrive and SharePoint core engineering at Microsoft. She has a strong backend and cloud pedigree from roles at Kakao, Kakao Enterprise, and Nexon, working with Java, Spring Boot, Python, Go, Docker, and AWS to power search systems and validated data ingestion. With an MS in Computer Science from KAIST and a BS focused on information security, she bridges secure-by-design thinking with practical production engineering. Comfortable in both research-adjacent AI teams and high-throughput infra contexts, she combines product-oriented delivery with academic rigor and cross-cultural experience in Korea and the Greater Seattle Area. An underrated strength is translating search and telemetry requirements into resilient backend tools that scale for millions of users.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Seoul Women's UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Korean, EnglishProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hyeon0121/movie_app
May 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 11 months
hyeon0121/programmers_problem
Jul 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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