Sangwon Lee
Frontend Developer Leader (Staff Engineer) at Kakao Corp
Gyeonggi, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolSangwon Lee is a frontend developer leader (Staff Engineer) with 12 years of cross-domain experience spanning game development, embedded systems, backend services, native/hybrid apps, and dev-ops, currently leading frontend efforts at Kakao. He combines hands-on engineering with product empathy, enjoying building tools people love — from a popular MPEG-DASH MPD parser packaged for Ubuntu to an Electron-based screen recorder and WebRTC game streaming experiments. Comfortable switching stacks, Sangwon moves quickly between TypeScript, Python, C++, Rust, Go and cloud/IoT platforms to solve concrete problems rather than chase technologies. He has a history of shipping research-grade prototypes and developer tooling (containerized preview environments, streaming proofs-of-concept) that accelerate QA and developer workflows. Based in Gyeonggi, South Korea, he pairs entrepreneurial grit from running a startup with enterprise experience at Kakao and Qualcomm. Colleagues would call him a "code hustler" who keeps going until problems are solved.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Soongsil University
Korean, English
Github Skills (101)
parser10
video-encoding10
pls10
manim10
video-processing10
hls-stream10
gpx10
kubernetes10
mpd10
ffmpeg10
subtitle10
docker10
mixer10
codec10
charts9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sangwonl/piper
Dec 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
sangwonl/stage34
Aug 2016 - May 2017
Freescale Staging Environment
Contributions:175 commits, 64 PRs, 96 pushes in 9 months
golangopenflowfreescalestaging-environmentstaging
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