Hi there, I’m Ikwhan.

Developing web products since 1998
Currently, Software Engineer @Google
CMU Alumni, Ex-Startup Founder @Urhyme

For several years, I’m an expert in full-stack web development from the scratch, dealing with ETLs, APIs, Serverless, UX, and product management. I was a founder and CTO of several startups in the Bay Area for developing future-oriented products (Big Data, EduTech, Blockchain) I’m inspired by balancing between cutting-edge and old-school CS theories and algorithms.

Korean to the core🇰🇷, I like to find the hole-in-the-wall gourmet places when traveling around the world with my lovely wife.

News

  • [Sep 25, 2021] I’m happy to announce that I’ll join Google in October as a Software Engineer.
  • [Jun. 2021] No longer looking for a job and will update my status soon.
  • [Jan 31, 2021] I’m actively looking for Software Engineering opportunities beginning in August 2021. Please feel free to send me an e-mail or click the green button on the right bottom side to talk with me!
  • [Jan 24, 2021] I’m starting as being TA for Algorithms for Large-scale Distributed Machine Learning and Optimization at Carnegie Mellon University in Spring 2021.

Areas of Interest

  • Electronic Dance Music, Music Production (New)
  • Distributed Big Data and Deep Learning Pipeline
  • Cloud Computing/Serverless/Microservice
  • Data Mining, Data Visualization
  • Deep Learning
  • Lean/Full-stack Startups

Past Work

Current Projects

  • Personal Healthcare Data ETL & ML Pipeline (May 2020 ~ Present): An automatic data ETL pipeline getting user’s daily activities using Google Dataflow, Apache Beam, Python, and Jupyter Notebook

Upcoming Projects

  • SendCode.to: a web-based code sendbox (like CoderPad)

Self-Directed Learning

Past Self Learning

Personal Notes