Shynar Torekhan
Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolShynar Torekhan is a software engineer with eight years of experience building backend and web systems across startups and large tech companies, currently at Reddit after four years at Amazon working on Prime Video financial systems. A KAIST computer science graduate with a minor in AI, she combines strong engineering rigor with practical optimization and data-processing experience from roles that sped up feature extraction and improved TTS corpus construction. Comfortable in both fast-moving startups and scaled organizations, she has shipped core features, refactored legacy systems, and built reusable libraries and tooling. Beyond engineering, she founded and led KAIST’s DanceSport club, organizing performances and winning multiple international medals—an unusual blend of technical leadership and creative teamwork. Based in the UK, she maintains an active GitHub showcasing her academic roots and applied software projects. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs algorithmic thinking with product-minded execution.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Advanced Major in Computer Science Minor in Artificial Intelligence (인공지능 중점이수), Bachelor's degree Advanced Major in Computer Science Minor in Artificial Intelligence (인공지능 중점이수) at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
English, Russian, Kazakh
Github Skills (5)
genetic3
testing2
benchmark2
genetic-algorithm2
performance-testing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Contributions:29 commits, 8 pushes, 2 issues in 27 days
KuntaePark/KuntaePark.github.io
May 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:28 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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