Summary
Youngwon Seo is a backend engineer based in Seoul with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating production services across startups and enterprise projects. Currently at Liner, he brings deep expertise in JVM backends, distributed systems, and cloud-native CI/CD—having implemented GRPC/Protobuf services, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, and ArgoCD in prior roles at Riiid and Plangram. He has a track record of being the sole or principal developer on critical service tiers and platform migrations, from payment and transfer services to ERP and 3PL integrations. Pragmatic about observability and reliability, he pairs development with DevOps practices (Docker, DataDog, AWS) to ship resilient APIs at scale. Colleagues rely on him for both design-level API integration and the gritty infrastructure work that keeps services running.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of Seoul
Korean, English, Japanese