Summary
Jongmin Moon is a Principal Engineer based in Seattle with 10 years of experience designing and scaling production systems for consumer-facing platforms. He currently leads architecture and platform design for hims & hers' telehealth stack, after driving Looks core services and size recommendation scaling at Nordstrom. Comfortable across full stacks and cloud-native patterns, he has built horizontally scalable messaging, isomorphic SPA APIs, and services handling 3x expected peak loads. His background spans startups and enterprise retail, combining hands-on implementation (Node, Java, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis) with senior technical leadership. Jongmin pairs rigorous academic training—a Ph.D. and MS in Information Science from the University of Washington—with a founder’s mindset from early ventures. He’s passionate about mobile experiences and pragmatic system design, often surfacing product-friendly engineering tradeoffs that others miss.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Information Science, Ph.D. Information Science at University of Washington
English, Japanese