Youngteac Hong
Software Engineer at Naver Corp
Gyeonggi, South Korea
Summary
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RockstarYoungteac Hong is a seasoned software engineer with over 13 years building large-scale web and collaborative systems for major Korean tech companies including Naver and Kakao. He leads development on Yorkie, a document store for real-time collaborative apps, blending expertise in Go, TypeScript, CRDTs, and distributed infrastructure (Docker/Kubernetes). Creator of the popular open-source Summernote WYSIWYG editor (10k+ stars), he brings deep front-end craftsmanship alongside backend protocol and SDK design. His background spans document processing, search, and machine learning platforms, reflecting a rare combination of low-level C/C++ parsing work and high-level distributed system design. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors and reliable real-time synchronization, and he consistently focuses on making tools that are "useful and helpful."
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
front-end-development10
refactor10
refactoring10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
summernote/summernote
Apr 2013 - Nov 2020
Super simple WYSIWYG editor
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 10 reviews, 1730 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Youngteac's commits primarily focused on refactoring and modifying the source code of the summernote WYSIWYG editor. The changes involved extracting code from the `Editor.js` file and introducing new methods like `insertParagraph` and `insertText`, indicating a focus on improving the text editing capabilities of the front-end editor. The code modifications spanned multiple files, with the overall goal of moving or extracting command logic and re-factoring of the history stack to History.js.
contenteditabletext-editingwysiwygjavascriptrich-text-editor
yorkie-team/dashboard
Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
Dashboard is an administrative tool that allows users to manage projects and documents with ease.
Contributions:104 reviews, 93 commits, 187 PRs in 10 months
admin-dashboardadministrativeyorkiedashboard
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