Summary
Kaden Cho is a software engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in backend and data engineering, currently building full-stack features at Coupang. He has designed and operated high-throughput microservices and payment/auth flows for consumer products (LINE NEXT, 11street) and scaled recommendation systems serving 30M+ users using Java, Kafka, Spark and Kubernetes. Kaden has deep hands-on experience in petabyte-scale data pipelines, on-prem and cloud ETL platforms, and has driven significant cost and performance wins (multi-hundred-thousand dollar savings and large reductions in job runtime and storage). He blends production-grade backend reliability with ML model serving and experimentation, contributing to measurable lifts in conversion and purchase metrics. Based in Seoul, he also shares technical writing and projects on GitHub and maintains bilingual engineering blogs, reflecting an appetite for communicating complex systems to diverse audiences.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Food Technology and Processing Culinary Management, Bachelor's degree Food Technology and Processing Culinary Management at Kyung Hee University
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at The Cyber University of Korea
Bachelor's degree International Business, Bachelor's degree International Business at SEAMK - Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences
한국조리과학고등학교