# Michael Soubine Chun

> Engineering leader, Investor, Advisor

Location: Stanford, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelsoubinechun

Engineering leader in Software Engineering with 18 years of experience.
Expertise in building large-scale distributed systems and growing software engineers.
Proficient in Typescript, Python, Java, React.js, Django, Node.js, Rest API, Apache Spark, Data Processing.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer - Ads Infra @ Meta
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States
- Building Ads Infrastructure for production models.

### Advisor @ Picky
Jan 2024 – Present | Seoul, South Korea
We are building the world's best digital community for skincare, an everyday concern for lots of people around the world.  Bringing the latest Koreans skincare products to the world!

Download Picky: http://onelink.to/fq2ksu

### TLM (Tech Lead, Engineering Manager) @ ThreeDucks
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
As a lead software engineer, I provided engineering leadership, architected product and services, developed APIs and Web apps, grew engineers at a Entertainment-tech startup.
- Delivered an ERP tool for managing orders, payments, and specialists.
- Worked on a Web3 Launchpad product with DeFI and DEX features on Sui blockchain. 
- Delivered a Java backend system for a group chat feature that supports large participants.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Stealth Startup
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
As a lead engineer, I architected and built a Digital Healthcare product at a startup.  Recruited engineering leaders and engineers.
- Delivered a web app, mobile app, backend services compliant with HIPAA.

### Senior Engineering Manager @ GoDaddy
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
As an engineering manager, I managed 2 teams, provided engineering leadership, and built large-scale products and services.
- Managed software projects and teams, vertically and horizontally.
- Delivered a large-scale data analytics platform composed of Collection, Ingestion, Data Lake, Analytics, Storage, Consumption layers for 300TB data, handling 130k records per second. 
    - https://www.godaddy.com/resources/news/data-platform-evolution#phase2
- Architected real-time data analytics using AWS solutions.
- Delivered a search service for businesses, images, videos in 42 markets and 17 languages.

### Staff Software Engineer @ GoDaddy
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
As a software engineer, I lead development of GoDaddy Ads product. 
- Created a backend system that maintains and manages ads across Facebook and Google
- Created a front end using React.js

### CTO/Co-Founder @ AdHusky
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
As an engineering co-founder of a startup, I led software development and product management.
- Developed AdHusky, a self-­service marketing product for generating Ad creatives, launching and managing Facebook Ads campaigns, 
- Became Facebook Marketing Partner in Ad Technologies, supporting 10k customers.

### Senior Software Engineer @ IDINCU
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area
IDINCU is a Korean start-up (funded by SoftBank) that provides reward-based mobile market research.

As a software engineer, I built Facebook App and B2B SDK products for collecting user feedback.

### HCI Researcher @ Stanford University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Stanford, California
Stanford CHIMe lab is a research lab focused on communication interface between human and interactive media.

As a software engineer, I created experiments on driving simulators.
- Developed autonomous driving feature on driving simulator for human-machine-interactions experiments.
- Developed iPad app for modality testing experiments.

### Software Engineer @ Firsthand Technologies (Acquired by CounterPath)
Jan 2005 – Jan 2008
Firsthand Technologies is a startup providing Enterprise VoIP solutions.

As a software engineer, I developed web and desktop Java software.
- Developed licensing software and VoIP solutions.
- Developed a webapp for controlling VoIP server.


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science
Stanford University

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Software Engineering
Carleton University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-01