# Jihoon Kang

> Software Engineer @ Google | Illinois '22

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

Making Android plaform builds fast, accurate and efficient.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer III @ Google
Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
- Implemented the build system changes to support the organization-wide effort to migrate the development of the Android platform to the trunk-based development with feature flags.

- Migrated the partitions packaging rules from Make to Soong, achieving 30% reduction in clean and incremental analysis time.

### Software Engineer II @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States
- Focused on migrating the build system of the Android platform from Soong, Ninja and Make to Bazel.

- Simplified the dependency chain of the Java API stub generation, improving the clean and incremental build performance of the Android framework by 30%, significantly enhancing the productivity of the platform developers.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Suwon, South Korea
- Developed and simulated reinforcement learning robot simulation environment implementing MuJoCo engine and OpenAI Gym.
-  Explored feasibility of reinforcement learning adaptation in factory manufacturing environment, modelling multiple agents based on algorithms such as Proximal Policy Optimization and Soft Actor Critic.
- Certified Advanced Programmer for excellence in efficient programming and sophisticated knowledge in algorithms and data structures.

### CS 225: Data Structures Course Assistant @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Urbana-Champaign Area
- Enhanced better understanding of data structures in C++ of students by answering questions and guiding debugging during daily office hours.
- Promoted active discussion of students during weekly lab sessions, exploring various data structures including trees, hash table and heaps.

### Data Analyst Intern @ Sibel Health
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Niles, Illinois, United States
- Conducted and assisted signal processing and data analysis based on the vital signals collected from the integrated sensors system.
- Engineered algorithm development of the company product's key features, including posture detection and fall detection, implementing Support Vector Machine classifier.
- Developed a web-based interactive dashboard implementing Flask, providing interdepartmental assistance based on insights discovered from data analysis and signal processing of sensor-accumulated patients' vital signals.
- Created and trained a digit-recognition Convolutional Neural Network model with custom datasets using PyTorch, significantly reducing the difficulty and increasing the accuracy in gold data extraction.
- Led and developed a GUI program development project using PyQt, reducing the clinical researcher’s hardship in gold data extraction by minimizing manual labelling.
- Gained knowledge in digital signal processing, including frequency filtering, peak detection and transform.

### Sergeant @ Republic of Korea Army
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Inje-gun, Gangwon-do, Korea
Sergeant at the 3rd Oil Mobilization Company, 13th Supply Battalion, 3rd Logistics Supply Brigade, III Corps

- Served at the front line troops near the DMZ(de-militarized zone) during the entire service
- Led the squad for 6 months as a squad leader.
- Managed the only lubricant warehouse in the battalion.
- Electronically managed the oil and chemical-related properties of the battalion.
- Actively worked as a battalion Buddhist chaplain soldier, assisting the chaplain in the weekly Buddhist ceremonies.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Economics, Minor in Statistics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2016 – Jan 2022

### Bugil Academy
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jihoonkang0829

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Last updated: 2026-03-22