Summary
Johnny Jung is a software engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in live video/audio streaming, real-time video processing, and transcoding systems. Based in San Francisco, he has driven low-latency, cost-optimized video infrastructure at Twitch and AWS IVS—implementing new codecs, collaborating with hardware partners (NVIDIA, Xilinx/AMD) and contributing to the VT1 EC2 instance launch. Comfortable in C++, Go, Python and Ruby, he has led multithreaded, GPU-accelerated transcoders and cross-platform SDK work powering client apps on mobile and consoles. Now at Persona, he applies that systems-level expertise to build scalable verification and anti-fraud product infrastructure. Beyond production engineering, his background includes academic research in planning algorithms and early work in spatiotemporal data mining, reflecting a blend of practical systems design and algorithmic thinking.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering and Computer Science at University of Southern California
English, Korean