Joohwan Oh, Developer in Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Joohwan Oh

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Software Developer

Location
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Toptal Member Since
April 2, 2020

Joohwan has over eight years of professional experience in software development, specializing in distributed and back-end systems. His work history includes successful startups and big tech companies such as Amazon and Meta. Author of several popular open-source projects on GitHub, Joohwan works most often with Python, Django, and AWS.

PythonREST APIsAmazon Web Services (AWS)GitLinuxPostgreSQLNoSQLJavaDjango REST FrameworkDjangoAutomationDockerNode.jsFlaskAngularJSApache Thrift

Portfolio

Meta (Facebook)
Apache Thrift, Python, Infrastructure, MySQL, REST APIs, React, TypeScript
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Git, Python, Java, TypeScript
Amazon.com
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Git, AngularJS, Java

Experience

Python - 9 yearsREST APIs - 7 yearsPostgreSQL - 6 yearsLinux - 6 yearsNoSQL - 6 yearsAmazon Web Services (AWS) - 6 yearsDjango REST Framework - 3 yearsDjango - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Git, Python, Django

The most amazing...

...experience I've had was from my open source projects, several of which made it to the front page of Hacker News and now have many users.

Work Experience

Software Engineer

2021 - PRESENT
Meta (Facebook)
  • Was a founding member of a critical back-end service for company-wide capacity management.
  • Designed and built highly scalable APIs and microservices using Thrift, Python, MySQL, and Hive.
  • Optimized one of the core microservices owned by the team and reduced its timeouts by 90%.
Technologies: Apache Thrift, Python, Infrastructure, MySQL, REST APIs, React, TypeScript

Software Development Engineer

2020 - 2021
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Led a team of engineers to deliver multiple projects end-to-end, adding new scheduling features to Amazon Connect.
  • Designed and built highly scalable APIs, microservices, and data pipelines using AWS.
  • Mentored other software engineers and interns in the team regularly.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Git, Python, Java, TypeScript

Software Development Engineer

2017 - 2018
Amazon.com
  • Designed and built software and video games platform features, part of Amazon.com retail website.
  • Overhauled the web portal for onboarding third-party software vendors.
  • Trained the new intern and oversaw his internship project.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Git, AngularJS, Java

Software Engineer

2015 - 2016
Unata (acquired by Instacart)
  • Integrated Unata's eCommerce platform with third-party services such as Salesforce and Paypal.
  • Optimized the daily client data ingestion process and reduced its runtime by 80%.
  • Wore many hats and played vital roles in the back end, DevOps, and client meetings while the company grew quickly from 10 to 50+ people in a year.
Technologies: Linux, Git, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Redis, PostgreSQL, Flask, Python

Software Engineer Intern

2013 - 2014
Demonware (Activision Blizzard)
  • Implemented features for an operations tool for automating datacenter management workflows.
  • Created plugins for the automation tool to interface with MySQL and ArangoDB.
  • Built a datacenter topology visualizer for an in-house hackathon.
Technologies: Linux, Git, ArangoDB, MySQL, Python

Python-Arango

https://github.com/ArangoDB-Community/python-arango
Original author and maintainer of Python-Arango. Python-Arango is the most popular Python driver for ArangoDB, a NoSQL graph database. The project started out as a hobby and gradually evolved into an official, production-ready library.

Binarytree

https://github.com/joowani/binarytree
Author and maintainer of Binarytree, an open-source Python library that provides a simple API to generate, visualize, inspect, and manipulate binary trees. It lets users skip the tedious work of setting up test data and dive straight into practicing algorithms.

Kafka Queue (KQ)

https://github.com/joowani/kq
Author and maintainer of Kafka Queue (KQ), an open-source Python library for enqueuing and processing jobs asynchronously using Apache Kafka as the back-end storage. The project received over 550+ stars on Github.

Languages

Python, Java, TypeScript

Libraries/APIs

REST APIs, Node.js, React

Tools

Git, GitHub

Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Docker, Apache Kafka

Frameworks

Django REST Framework, Django, Flask, AngularJS, Apache Thrift

Paradigms

Automation

Storage

PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Redis, ArangoDB, Databases, MySQL

Other

Distributed Systems, Infrastructure

2010 - 2015

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

University of Toronto - Toronto, ON

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