Saehej Kang
Senior Software Engineer at SimSpace
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaehej Kang is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 10 years of experience building backend systems and automation for virtualized infrastructure. Currently driving VM provisioning and orchestration at SimSpace, he has progressed through multiple engineering levels there and previously contributed to production systems at Workrise and internships including Western Digital. He pairs an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT Austin with a BS in Computer Engineering from Cal Poly, and brings low-level systems insight to higher-level service design. An active open-source contributor, Saehej has made meaningful back-end fixes to the Swift compiler’s ASTGen component—resolving memory and syntax-generation issues—which highlights his attention to correctness in complex codebases. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he focuses on reliable, automated infrastructure that scales across VMware environments.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
English
Github Skills (4)
swift10
compiler-design10
error-handling7
test-automation6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
The Swift Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 13 PRs, 147 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Saehej primarily contributed to the Swift programming language's ASTGen component. Their work involved refining code within the `ASTGen` directory, addressing buffer handling issues and fixing potential memory access problems. Further contributions included modifying the ASTGenVisitor class, specifically related to the SyntaxTransformVisitor conformance and generating syntax nodes for declarations. They also updated an error string related to C-style for loops and added a test for a parenthesized try expression.
swift-programmingswift-programming-languageprogramming-languageswift
jsseng/Senior-Project-Winter-Spring-2021
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:33 commits, 6 PRs, 25 pushes in 4 months
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