Sanghoon Kim is a data engineer at KAKAO Corp with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale data platforms. He leads development of an internal Data Catalog Platform, designing Airflow-based batch pipelines and integrating Hadoop ecosystem tools like HDFS, Hive, and Spark for reliable data ingestion and processing. Sanghoon pairs backend skills in Python and Scala with front-end work in React and pragmatic platform instrumentation to track MAU and prioritize UX improvements. He has delivered practical automation—automated schema detection, partition monitoring—and even an LLM-powered column description recommender to boost documentation efficiency. Trained in both philosophy and computer science (Cum Laude), he blends analytical rigor with engineering pragmatism to solve ambiguous data problems across teams in Seoul.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Cum Laude at 서강대학교
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Aarhus University
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