Sangwhan Moon
Software Engineering Manager at Google
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSangwhan Moon is a software engineering manager with 17 years of experience leading high-performance systems, currently driving Chrome engineering at Google from Kirkland, WA. He combines deep expertise in OS/kernel performance, virtualization and distributed architectures with hands-on ML and NLP research, holding a PhD in AI/NLP from Science Tokyo. Previously he built and directed engineering at Odd Concepts, designing heterogeneous distributed compute, efficient nearest-neighbor search, and a Python-embedded NoSQL store for scientific workloads. An active standards and open-source contributor (W3C TAG and back-end work on Kakao’s khaiii Hangul analyzer), he blends pragmatic production engineering with research-driven innovations like LLM post-training. Known for tackling low-level performance bottlenecks as well as large-scale architecture, he also brings an uncommon background as a former auxiliary policeman who prototyped public-sector business apps.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA, International Commerce, BA, International Commerce at Kyung Hee UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Interactive Intelligence, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Interactive Intelligence at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artifical Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artifical Intelligence, Natural Language Processing at Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo)
English, Korean, Japanese
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Github Skills (8)
string-formatting10
string-format10
python10
logging9
file-processing8
file-handling8
fileio8
file-access8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kakao/khaiii
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Kakao Hangul Analyzer III
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 17 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sangwhan's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase of the khaiii project. They replaced string literals with the `format()` method to enhance code maintainability and compatibility. They also modified the logging level and adjusted file paths within the project. Furthermore, they made several changes to resource compilation scripts, reflecting their involvement in the build process.
hanguliiiromajikorean-nlpanalyzer
oddconcepts/oxford-benchmark
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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