Summary
Jungwon Yoon is a Senior Backend Engineer with seven years of full-stack experience and a proven track record building data-intensive systems and AI services. Based in Anaheim, he currently architects generative AI backend features at Krikey AI, having progressed from backend developer to senior engineer there. His expertise spans Java, Python, Node.js, Spring and Flask, and he has hands-on experience optimizing very large datasets—having automated updates for a 300 million-record real estate system and built scalable crawlers and ranking pipelines for multimedia and social data. Comfortable across cloud and DevOps tooling (AWS, GCP, Docker/Nginx, Git), he blends research-era experimentation with production-grade engineering from his work in academic labs and startups. Notably, his background includes implementing image and NLP-based retrieval systems and integrating diverse ML datasets into searchable platforms, making him adept at turning ML research into reliable backend services.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Sangmyung University