Summary
Sean Hwang is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale with eight years of professional experience and a strong foundation in algorithms and machine learning. Currently a tech lead on Google Cloud Storage’s Serving Efficiency team, he focuses on optimizing large-scale storage systems and delivering performance improvements at cloud scale. His background spans search AI, computer vision, IoT, robotics backends, and NLP from internships at NAVER, Intel, Bear Robotics, and Somansa, giving him a versatile hands-on toolkit across ML and systems engineering. Sean also led automation efforts and team leadership during his military service, where he built duty-scheduling automation and commanded an eight-member squad, illustrating practical leadership under operational constraints. He holds a CS degree from UC San Diego and combines research-minded problem solving with production-grade engineering to bridge ML research and cloud infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego