Jungshik Shin
Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJungshik Shin is a seasoned software engineer with 18 years of experience based in Sunnyvale, California, currently at Google. He specializes in software internationalization (I18N) and open source development, bringing deep practical knowledge of cross-platform compatibility and localization challenges. His long-running contributions to the ICU project include bug fixes that addressed memory leaks on Windows, Visual Studio build issues, buffer overflows, and timezone/DST detection improvements—work that directly improves global text and locale handling used across many products. Known for meticulous code quality and platform-aware debugging, he turns subtle, hard-to-reproduce internationalization bugs into robust fixes. Jungshik blends production-scale engineering at a major tech company with steady stewardship of critical open source infrastructure that powers multilingual software worldwide.
18 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
windows10
c-language10
cross-platform10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
multiplatform10
icu4c10
unicode10
icu10
rails-i18n9
linux9
ember-i18n9
i18n-js9
memory-management9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
unicode-org/icu
Dec 2008 - Aug 2022
The home of the ICU project source code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 49 commits, 9 PRs in 13 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jungshik primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the ICU project. They addressed memory leaks on Windows, fixed build errors related to Visual Studio, and resolved buffer overflows. Their work also involved improving timezone detection, fixing issues related to DST on Linux, and updating language tag mappings. The user's changes indicate a focus on cross-platform compatibility and code quality.
cppc-plus-plusicu4cunicode-consortiumicu4j
ConnectionMaster/chromium-deps-icu
Dec 2014 - Feb 2018
Fork of https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/icu
Contributions:137 commits in 3 years 2 months
chromium
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