Young Choi
Senior Software Engineer at Circle
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolYoung Choi is a Software Engineer II with nine years of experience building backend systems in Go and Java, currently contributing to Circle’s Web3 team focused on USDC. He has a strong IoT and simulation background from TSI and Arrowstreet, where he delivered production-grade services and portfolio simulation engines using C#, SQL, and cloud tooling. Young combines hands-on engineering with practical product instincts demonstrated by improving transaction categorization accuracy and automating backups earlier in his career. He brings disciplined operational experience from military service as a KATUSA sergeant, applied to runbooks, documentation, and team training. Based in Menlo Park, he maintains a technical blog and favors pragmatic, test-driven development that bridges research prototypes to reliable deployments. Notably, he has been recognized internally (TSI Change Maker, hackathon People’s Choice) for driving impact beyond code.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Gyeonggi Academy of Foreign LanguagesBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Boston University
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Github Skills (31)
mechanics9
algorithm8
virtual-tour8
data-science8
python7
html6
windows6
matplotlib6
testing6
scrapy5
javascript4
hacklang4
youtube4
google-maps4
python-web3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
WHYjun/travel-tube
Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
The virtual tour guide to the world with Youtube and Google Maps
Contributions:40 PRs, 39 pushes, 11 branches in 10 months
firebasetour-guideyoutubevirtual-tourgoogle-maps
WHYjun/whyjun.github.io
Nov 2021 - Jul 2026
Contributions:17 PRs, 112 pushes, 30 branches in 4 years 8 months
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