Sungkeun Kim
Staff Engineer at Samsung Electronics
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolSungkeun Kim is a Staff Engineer and Ph.D. candidate in computer engineering with nine years of industry and research experience spanning Samsung, Intel, and Texas A&M. He specializes in computer architecture and systems—particularly networks-on-chip, memory systems, near-data processing, and hardware security—and has bridged academic research with product work on Galaxy S Android framework performance and reliability. His contributions to the H2 database open-source project demonstrate deep practical knowledge of database internals and concurrency (MVCC and SELECT FOR UPDATE fixes). At Samsung he shipped smartphone platform improvements; in academia he focused on architecture-system co-design for security, reflecting a rare combination of low-level hardware insight and production-scale software engineering. Based in Seoul, he pairs strong publication-grade research with hands-on debugging and performance optimization experience across hardware and software stacks.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer engineering, Computer Enginerring and science, Bachelor of Computer engineering, Computer Enginerring and science at Kyungpook National UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, 3.8/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, 3.8/4.0 at Texas A&M University
English, Korean
Github Skills (7)
javas10
databases10
java10
concurrency10
database10
testing10
sql9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
codefollower/H2-Research
Apr 2017 - May 2017
H2数据库源代码学习研究(包括代码注释、文档、用于代码分析的测试用例)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:8 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Sungkeun primarily contributed to the H2 database source code, focusing on bug fixes and test case additions. Their work involved addressing concurrency issues related to the `SELECT FOR UPDATE` functionality within the MVCC (Multi-Version Concurrency Control) system. They also made modifications to improve the reliability of the database, including closing database connections and dropping test tables. The commits demonstrate a strong understanding of database internals and concurrent programming.
java
TAMU-SK-Research/H2Exercise
Mar 2017 - Nov 2023
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 8 months
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