Sung Whang
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Uber
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSung Whang is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in programming languages, runtimes, developer tools, and performance engineering. He has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Uber and Microsoft, shipping production-quality systems and driving technical direction across large-scale teams. An active open-source maintainer since college, Sung consistently contributes practical tooling and runtime improvements—his GitHub reflects a long-running habit of publishing and sustaining projects. Based in Bellevue, WA, he blends deep systems knowledge with pragmatic product delivery, often optimizing for speed and developer ergonomics. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on engineer who surfaces low-level improvements that yield measurable system-wide gains.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Northwestern University
Korean, English, Indonesian
Github Skills (12)
racket10
scheme10
code-golf10
mojo10
polyglot9
stack-based9
programming-language7
compiler6
language-design6
drracket4
ide3
react1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jameswhang/jameswhang.github.io
Jan 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 79 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
eecs394-s16/Bellacoola
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:19 PRs, 36 pushes, 18 branches in 1 month
orangeclient-project
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