Sungwoo Chun
Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSungwoo Chun is a backend engineer with 8 years of experience building large distributed systems and production services for companies like Twitter, Hopper, and Meta. He specializes in internationalization, localization, and language-aware data pipelines—having led the Localizable String Extractor that cut translation lead time from days to zero and built the Transliteration API that improved cross-language communication. Proficient in Scala, Python, Hadoop, MySQL and I18N, he has a track record of shipping cost-saving optimizations (including a $1M/year translation spend reduction) and reducing on-call noise through proactive engineering. Currently based in New York and pursuing graduate studies at NYU Courant, he blends academic rigor with hands-on systems design and a knack for turning language data into personalized product experiences.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student, Exchange Student at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at Pohang University of Science and TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at New York University
Korean, English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
dynamodb4
aws3
aws-dynamodb2
distributed-systems1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sw007chun/nyu-distributed-systems-dynamoDB
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Fall 2020 Distributed Systems Project (Implementing DynamoDB)
Contributions:8 reviews, 22 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 month
aws-dynamodbfalldynamodbdistributed-systemsaws
sw007chun/sw007chun.github.io
Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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