Summary
Jupil Hwang is a seasoned platform and solutions engineering leader with 11 years in cloud-native architecture and over two decades in software and systems roles, currently serving as Team Lead Solution Engineering at Confluent in Seoul. He blends deep hands-on expertise in containers, Kubernetes, serverless, Spring Boot/Kotlin microservices, and event-driven platforms like Kafka with practical experience in blockchain (Hyperledger Fabric) and DevOps automation. His background spans senior technical roles at Confluent, Pivotal, Oracle and BEA, where he guided large-scale platform adoption and architecture for enterprise customers. Jupil is comfortable switching between developer and architect mindsets—implementing production-grade systems while mentoring teams on operational resilience and data-in-motion patterns. He is notable for combining low-level system knowledge (Linux/open source) with applied ML and event-streaming design, enabling pragmatic, scalable solutions. Based in Seoul, he brings a long track record of translating complex technical requirements into deployable, observable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical engineering and computer science, BS Electrical engineering and computer science at Kyungpook National University