Woolim Cho
Software Engineer at Quora
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolWoolim Cho is a software engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building backend systems, currently contributing at Quora from Vancouver. A Sungkyunkwan University alumnus and former visiting researcher at UC Irvine, he blends academic rigor with practical product development. He has contributed to prominent open-source projects like Mattermost, focusing on database interactions, synchronous session handling, caching strategies, and performance optimizations. Known for improving core platform reliability and efficiency, he brings a systems-first mindset to large-scale collaboration tools. Comfortable translating research insights into production-ready code, Woolim excels at tackling backend complexity and delivering measurable improvements.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Sungkyunkwan UniversityUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Korean
Github Skills (13)
go10
sql10
database-design9
caching9
api8
mattermost8
apidoc8
react4
react-native4
fest3
monorepo3
golang3
collaboration3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/mattermost
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 23 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Woolim primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Mattermost platform. Their work focused on migrating methods for deleting preferences and sessions to be synchronous. They also added functionality to count pinned posts and implemented new caching strategies for improved performance. These changes involved modifications to database interactions and store interfaces, demonstrating a focus on optimizing the platform's core features.
mattermostcollaborationgolangreact-nativemonorepo
SystemConsultantGroup/scg-folio
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
A beautiful Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:56 commits, 26 PRs, 67 pushes in 13 days
jekyll-theme
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