Uihyun Kim
Senior Software Support Engineer at Elastic
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolUihyun Kim is a Senior Software Support Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience designing, operating, and tuning large-scale distributed systems, particularly the Elastic Stack and Elastic Cloud on AWS, Azure, and GCP. He specializes in observability, security, and building resilient data pipelines for indexing, searching, and visualizing high-volume data, often tackling performance and reliability at scale. At Elastic he leads customer-facing engineering efforts and creates tooling and knowledge bases to resolve complex cases—his practical innovation includes a tokenizer visualization tool for Korean and Japanese analyzers and contributions to Lucene analysis. Previously he developed and optimized Korean tokenizers for a Lucene-based Watson solution at IBM and led cross-team Java and RDBMS client initiatives at TmaxSoft. Comfortable bridging deep internals and customer outcomes, Uihyun combines research-backed knowledge-service engineering with hands-on production experience. He brings a rare combination of NLP/tokenization expertise and cloud-native operational know-how that makes him a go-to engineer for multilingual search and observability challenges.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Industry Management Engineering, Industry Management Engineering at Korea UniversityBachelor's degree, Electronic and Electricity Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electronic and Electricity Engineering at Hongik UniversityMaster's degree, Knowledge Service Engineering, Master's degree, Knowledge Service Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Korean, English
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Github Skills (12)
visualizations9
filebeat9
kibana9
elastic9
logstash9
elasticsearch9
observability8
heartbeat8
metricbeat7
packetbeat7
analyzer1
lucene1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
uihyun/token-visualizer
Mar 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:5 releases, 14 commits, 13 pushes in 2 months
uihyun/Football-Archive
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:14 pushes in 4 months
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