Led the development and launch of an AI chatbot within two months, utilizing OpenAI LLM APIs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques, and vector database integration to ensure precise responses using RealSelf data, and streaming AI answers using WebSocket.
Led the integration of Instagram for medical providers to display content on RealSelf profiles, meeting tight deadlines, supporting the sales team post-launch, and driving business page sales after the deprecation of the previous integration.
Redesigned medical provider business profiles on RealSelf, improving user experience, aligning with stakeholder objectives, and generating $6K in new MRR while earning positive feedback from the sales team for boosting sales performance.
Launched a new Ad product generating $5K in MRR, collaborating with Product, Design, Sales, and Analytics to streamline objectives and deliver a successful launch.
Presented multiple technical talks to the engineering organization, including topics on AWS OpenSearch, search indexing pipelines, and leveraging Builder.io for static and dynamic page creation, fostering cross-team knowledge sharing.
Mentored engineers across teams to enhance search-service functionality, guiding the development of endpoints and supporting data integration into pipelines, search indices, and user-facing applications.
2020 — 2022
Owned the team’s primary infrastructure migration, becoming a subject matter expert while completing the Elasticsearch migration from AWS EC2 to OpenSearch and updating APIs for the new infrastructure.
Led the decommissioning of the third-party search service Algolia, saving $120k annually, and the EC2-hosted Elasticsearch, saving $20k annually, while collaborating with the Infra team to clean up related infrastructure.
Migrated 18 cron jobs from AWS ES2 to AWS ECS, collaborating with the Infra team for the new infrastructure transition, and guided engineers across the company in migrating cron jobs by conducting pair programming sessions and providing a comprehensive how-to document.
Mentored 2 new team members and 2 rotating engineers by leading 1-1s and maintaining the team’s infra overview documents.
2020 — 2020
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
CS 344 Operating System I
Assisted students in debugging and grading assignments using Bash, C, and Python: bash scripting, multi-threading, multi-processing, and socket networking
2019 — 2019
Corvallis, Oregon Area
Led, architected, and implemented a GraphQL API using TypeScript, and MongoDB for HazAdapt which is on track of being adopted by OSU for campus emergency management system.
Set a linux server on AWS and configured reverse proxy to serve three apps using NginX.
Wrote a bash script to automate application deployment, reduced the time by 1/2.
Education
2018 — 2020
Oregon State University
Master of Science - MS
2018 — 2020
2004 — 2013
Sangmyung University
Bachelor's degree
2004 — 2013