Summary
Seongwoo Kang is a software engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in AI safety and cloud-native services, currently working at NAVER after a multi-year tenure at Samsung Electronics. He designed and maintained Spring-based PII detection pipelines on GCP—leveraging Pub/Sub and BigQuery—and contributed to improving PII detection algorithms, bridging ML research and production engineering. His background includes hands-on ML engineering experience and a Computer Engineering degree from UIUC, reflecting strong foundations in both systems and model-side concerns. Based in Gwangmyeong, South Korea, he combines practical cloud-scale implementation skills with an eye toward making AI systems more secure and privacy-aware. An aspect that sets him apart is his track record of operationalizing privacy-first ML components within large enterprise cloud environments.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign