Jiwon Jeon
Release Engineer at kakaopay
Gyeonggi, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolJiwon Jeon is a release engineer with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently focused on enhancing deployment, batch, and performance testing systems at KakaoPay. Previously he drove platform engineering at 11STREET, modernizing VM-based APIs to Kubernetes, running an APISIX OpenAPI gateway, and improving developer experience through a self-service internal developer platform and OpenTelemetry-based observability. Comfortable across Java/Spring, Kotlin, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, and Kafka, he frames himself as a versatilist—balancing deep platform craft with broad operational fluency. Trained in cyber security, Jiwon brings a security-minded perspective to release and platform reliability work. His GitHub profile reflects a junior SWE mindset evolving toward multidisciplinary platform ownership and automation. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who reduces cognitive load for teams while shipping production-grade infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering | Cyber Security, Bachelor of Engineering | Cyber Security at Ajou UniversityGraduated Hacking Defense, Graduated Hacking Defense at Korea Digital Media High School
Korean, English
Github Skills (168)
api-management10
controller10
proxy10
failover10
grafana10
performance-testing10
security10
resilience4j10
fault-tolerance10
serverless10
microservices10
load-testing10
reactor10
k8s10
openapi10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kworkbee/kworkbee.github.io
Jun 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:60 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
kworkbee/Crawlers
Jun 2019 - Feb 2022
Node.js / Python Based Crawler - Scraped from certain communities, SNS, etc.,
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
pythonscrapynode-jscommunitiesscraping
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