Minjae Kwon
Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
Falls Church, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMinjae Kwon is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems, developer tools, and user-facing features across cloud platforms and open-source ecosystems. He helped add managed file-processing to AWS Transfer Family, pairing deep AWS experience with hands-on UI work, and now brings that cloud-focused expertise to Capital One. An active open-source contributor, Minjae has enhanced projects from Apache Airflow integrations to popular Go tooling (gofakeit and tooling that ranks Go web frameworks), demonstrating strong API design, testing discipline, and reliability improvements like rate-limit handling. His early start in coding and side career as a Korean translator show a blend of technical curiosity and cross-cultural communication that helps him navigate product and stakeholder needs. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he enjoys tackling infrastructure edge cases and making developer workflows simpler and more testable.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Korean, English
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Github Skills (53)
data-generation10
apache-airflow10
javascript10
website-development10
data-pipelines10
python10
api-design10
data-engineering10
testing10
command-line-interface10
workflow-engine10
apache10
automation10
go10
aws10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
mingrammer/flog
Oct 2017 - Aug 2020
:tophat: A fake log generator for common log formats
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 1 review, 120 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Minjae primarily contributed to the development of a fake log generator. Their work involved creating and modifying core functionalities to generate logs in various formats such as Apache and RFC. This included writing code to handle options, file writing, and integrating external libraries. The user also implemented features to support different output types and control log generation through options like sleep and delay.
loggerdummy-datasyslogapachelogging
mingrammer/go-web-framework-stars
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
:star: Web frameworks for Go, most starred on GitHub
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 423 commits, 34 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Minjae primarily contributed to the back-end logic of a Go-based web framework ranking project. Their work included implementing the core functionality to fetch data from GitHub APIs, parsing the information, and generating the README.md file with the ranking data. The user also introduced changes to handle API rate limits and authentication, enhancing the reliability of the data retrieval process. They further improved the project by adding the display of last commit dates and refactoring the code.
golangframeworkwebframeworkrankingapi-server
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