Kiryong Ha
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Meta
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKiryong Ha is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Meta with 14 years of experience designing and scaling infrastructure that supports Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. He specializes in global capacity management and resource fungibility, driving systems-level optimizations that improve utilization across massive backend services. His background blends rigorous research—PhD work at Carnegie Mellon on distributed systems, cloud computing, and edge/cloudlet architectures—with hands-on production engineering since joining Meta in 2017. Earlier research roles and degrees from KAIST in electrical engineering, computer science, and bioinformatics give him a multidisciplinary perspective he applies to practical infrastructure problems. Colleagues know him for translating academic insights into deployable systems that materially reduce cost and increase scalability.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, System Virtualization, Edge Computing (Cloudlet), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, System Virtualization, Edge Computing (Cloudlet) at Carnegie Mellon UniversityB.S., Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, B.S., Electrical Engineering, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Github Skills (15)
endpoint-security10
provisioning10
hyper-v10
vcenter10
wearable-cognitive-assistance9
synthesis9
openstack8
rails5
qemu4
python4
service-management3
serverless2
linux1
discovery1
gcp1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cmusatyalab/elijah-provisioning
Feb 2014 - Dec 2016
Cloudlet provisioning using VM synthesis
Contributions:346 commits, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
provisioningendpoint-securityvcentersynthesishyper-v
OpenEdgeComputing/elijah-qemu
Mar 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:23 commits in 2 years 8 months
elijahqemumodified
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