Summary
Seongyoung K is a software engineer with 8 years of experience focused on building high-performance systems that are cost-effective. Currently on Meta’s Wearable Core OS team, he works on firmware and Android kernel-level inter-process communication across PCIe and AXI fabrics. His PhD research at UC Irvine produced memory-optimized hardware accelerators using FPGAs and non-volatile memory, bridging academic rigor with practical system design. Past internships include a SmartSSD near-storage graph ingestion engine at Samsung Semiconductor (resulting in a US patent) and Debian packaging at Lablup, showing a mix of low-level systems, storage, and tooling expertise. Based in Redmond, he brings a pragmatic mindset—learning from every project rather than treating mistakes as failures—to deliver efficient, production-ready solutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Kookmin University
University of California, Irvine