Teukgeon Kwon
Staff Backend Engineer at Coupang
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolTeukgeon Kwon is a Staff Backend Engineer based in Seoul with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, developer tooling, and scalable backend systems. He blends DevOps mindset with backend engineering—driving architecture sustainability, developer productivity, and observability across organizations from startups to large enterprises like Coupang and Sendbird. Notable deliveries include migrating monitoring stacks to Datadog, terraforming 90%+ of AWS resources, EKS/ArgoCD adoption, and cutting build/deploy times by over 50%. He has a track record of cost-conscious automation—saving >30% on AWS for blockchain performance testing and 80% in AMI management via CI improvements. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams, he’s also supported AI/ML workflows by provisioning GPU-friendly environments and moving sync image pipelines to scalable MQ-based systems. Pragmatic and systems-focused, he often surfaces developer ergonomics and governance improvements that quietly scale an organization’s velocity.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
공학 학사 전자거래학, 공학 학사 전자거래학 at 경원대학교 / Kyungwon University이과, 이과 at 경성고등학교
Korean, English
Github Skills (81)
vim10
middleware10
api10
pagerduty10
router10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
mux10
vscode10
neovim10
keybindings10
server10
golang9
visual-studio9
notification-center9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
9to6/docker-wordpress-zlib-xml
Mar 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
9to6/my-configurations
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:52 commits, 58 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 10 months
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