Summary
Soonho Seo is a Senior Backend Software Engineer based in Seoul with 10 years of experience building low-latency, cost-efficient distributed systems and data pipelines. A generalist and declarative-programming advocate, he has implemented sub-second stream processing at Hyperconnect using Apache Flink, Scala, and Kotlin, and previously scaled Kubernetes clusters to support hundreds of GPU instances for large-scale video analysis. He blends domain-driven design with automation and abstraction to reduce operational overhead—once delivering performance improvements that translated into salary-equivalent cost savings. Comfortable across the stack, he has also led GIS image-processing pipelines and introduced CI/CD and observability practices that improved engineering velocity.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National University
English, Korean