Sang-min Park
Senior Staff Backend Engineer at Coupang
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSang-min Park is a Senior Staff Backend Engineer with 15 years building large-scale, production-critical systems across startups and hyperscale companies, currently leading Fulfillment Technologies at Coupang. He was the backend architect for Pokémon Go at Niantic—supporting a business that exceeded $1B/year—and later led autoscaling and GenAI initiatives that materially reduced costs. His background spans cloud platforms (Eucalyptus/HP), datacenter supply chain optimization at Google, and end-to-end web architecture at Fancy, reflecting deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability, and cost-aware infrastructure. An active backend contributor to open-source cloud projects, his work on load balancing, health checks, and session handling shows a pragmatic focus on stability and observability. Based in Seattle with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia, he combines research rigor with hands-on delivery and a knack for translating ML and scaling research into operational savings. Colleagues describe him as a systems thinker who surfaces unexpected efficiencies by aligning architecture with business metrics.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of Virginia
Korean
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
load-balancing10
api10
apidoc10
java10
s3-bucket9
dns9
aws9
postgresql9
amazon-s39
domain-name9
aws-s39
dns-sd9
testing7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
eucalyptus/eucalyptus
Nov 2010 - Apr 2017
Eucalyptus Cloud-computing Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:994 commits in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Sang-min's commits primarily involve modifications to the load balancing service within the Eucalyptus Cloud-computing Platform. The changes focus on improving the functionality and stability of the service, including updates related to health checks, DNS resolution, and interactions with external systems. The user implemented features related to access logs, and session handling. The contributions demonstrate a focus on backend logic, and database interaction, suggesting that the user is a back-end developer.
cloudkubernetescloud-computingcomputing
eucalyptus/load-balancer-servo
Feb 2013 - Apr 2017
Contributions:118 commits, 3 PRs, 96 pushes in 4 years 2 months
mechanismcontrollingmonitoringload-balancerbalancer
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