Youngjoo Kim
Senior Software Engineer at Samsung Electronics
South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolYoungjoo Kim is a Senior Software Engineer based in South Korea with 12 years of professional experience and a background in computer engineering from Kyungpook National University. Currently at Samsung Electronics since 2013, she brings deep expertise in backend systems, stability improvements, and long-lived production code. Her open-source contributions include targeted refactors and bug fixes to the well-known nginx-module-vts, improving type safety, compile compatibility, logging, and request-time metrics—work that highlights a focus on maintainability and observability. Prior to Samsung she led engineering efforts as a manager at Feelingk, blending hands-on development with team leadership. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic problem-solving in complex C/C++ and systems-level code, and for quietly improving developer ergonomics through incremental but impactful fixes. She pairs institutional-scale experience with a developer’s attention to detail, making legacy systems more robust and measurable.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Kyungpook National University
Github Skills (6)
c1710
nginx-module10
nginx10
c-programming10
c1110
performance-optimization7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vozlt/nginx-module-vts
Feb 2015 - Sep 2022
Nginx virtual host traffic status module
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 154 commits, 35 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Youngjoo primarily focused on refactoring and bug fixes related to the `nginx-module-vts` module. They modified code to improve type casting, address compile compatibility issues, and fix a reference error within the module. Additional changes included adjustments to key lengths and the addition of logging, indicating a focus on improving the module's stability and maintainability. The user also contributed to improvements in the average request processing time calculation.
nginxvozlt-nginx-modulesnginx-modulehoststatus
vozlt/xe-hook-fpc
May 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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