Taegeon Um
Staff Engineer at Samsung Electronics
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolTaegeon Um is a Staff Engineer at Samsung Research in Seoul with 12 years of experience focused on designing and optimizing large-scale distributed and real-time data processing pipelines. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Seoul National University, where his academic work underpins a research-driven approach to production systems. At Samsung he blends systems research with hands-on engineering to build scalable, low-latency data platforms for demanding workloads. Taegeon is comfortable spanning the full stack of distributed systems concerns—architecture, performance tuning, and operationalization—bringing both theoretical rigor and practical delivery. Based in South Korea, he maintains an active personal site showcasing his projects and insights into high-throughput pipeline design. Peers describe him as the kind of engineer who bridges deep academic knowledge with relentless focus on production robustness.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer science and engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer science and engineering at 서울대학교 (Seoul National University)
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Github Skills (50)
pytorch10
python10
data-science10
llama10
machine-learning10
inference10
tpu10
java10
amd10
llm10
stream10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
neural-network10
cuda10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
snuspl/incubator-nemo
Nov 2018 - Jun 2021
Apache Nemo Incubating
Contributions:2633 commits, 13 pushes in 2 years 7 months
javaincubatingnemoapache
snuspl/pluto
Nov 2015 - Mar 2019
MIST: High-performance IoT Stream Processing
Contributions:317 commits, 73 PRs, 48 pushes in 3 years 4 months
stream-processingmistdata-streamperformancestream
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