# Jeahong  Hwang

> Software Engineer @ Emissary

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jeahong

Building new AI infrastructure for general SWE

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Emissary
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer Intern @ Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• Contributed to an open-source project focused on building a comprehensive system for monitoring data pipelines, enabling organizations to proactively manage and optimize their data workflows for enhanced efficiency
• Designed and implemented a Kubernetes operator using Go to autonomously provision and integrate user data pipelines into the monitoring system. Resulted in streamlined operations and saving multiple operational hours per pipeline
• Designed and executed an experiment to evaluate and contrast different load generator alternatives, resulting in data-driven recommendations for an optimal-performanced one
• Revamped CI/CD pipeline through GitHub Actions, streamlining workflows with Makefile scripting. Significantly reduced integration and deployment times by more than 3x

### Tech Lead / Software Engineer (BE) @ BuildBlock
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seoul, South Korea
• Led a team of 5 frontend and backend engineers to develop a service that visualizes U.S. real estate investment processes for investors. Resulted in a 4x increase in customer acquisition
• Played a pivotal and leading role in the Engineering organization to secure Series A funding for the company. Funding round led to a 5x increase in company valuation by raising more than 10 million USD
• Architected and implemented a backend service leveraging Python 3.9, Django 3.4, and PostgreSQL 12 to gather and analyze U.S. real estate property data, successfully processing 10k+ raw data entries weekly
• Designed and scaled an internal tooling service that allows employees to enhance their work efficiency (e.g., construction, managing internal information).
• Led efforts in forecasting investment viability with 85% precision via TensorFlow and Pandas
• Orchestrated a seamless CI/CD framework using Terraform, AWS ECS, AWS Fargate, and GitHub Actions, streamlining deployment procedures and ensuring code integrity, which significantly reduced deployment time and overhead

### Co-Founder / Chief Technical Officer @ UBO
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Seoul, South Korea
• Founded startup that provides a platform through which travelers can easily edit their videos and create a single short film through outsourcing.
• Designed and developed core web application with ReactJS and Firebase
• Selected as a startup to represent early-stage software companies in IF2019; the largest startup festival in South Korea.


## Education
### Master of Software Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Engineering
University of Seoul-서울시립대학교

### 휘문고등학교


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jeahonghwang

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Last updated: 2026-03-29