Samsung Backend Engineer | Incoming UIUC MCS

Backend & Platform Engineer
Eunhwa Park

Seeking U.S. backend and platform software engineering roles. I build backend systems for 56M+ user cloud platforms, including 50TB+ data migrations, IAM modernization, batch pipelines, and AI-assisted engineering tools.

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Years Experience

UIUC MCS

Incoming 2026

Merged OSS PRs

AWS

Solutions Architect Pro

Experience

Building large-scale distributed systems

Samsung Electronics

Cloud Service Platform Backend Developer

Jun 2023 ~ Present

Build and operate Java/Kotlin Spring Boot services for Samsung cloud platforms serving 56M+ users.
Contribute to 50TB+ data migration, IAM modernization, batch processing, and cloud-native infrastructure work.
Analyze production-scale logs and data pipelines with Python and PySpark to support performance and operational investigations.
Improve backend delivery and analysis workflows across AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions, including a 61% runtime reduction in one analysis path.

Education

Strong foundation in computer engineering

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Incoming Master of Computer Science (MCS)

2026 - 2028

Incoming graduate study focused on computer science foundations, systems, and AI-adjacent infrastructure.

Kyungpook National University

Mobile Engineering

2019 ~ 2023

GPA 4.45 / 4.5

Selected Projects

Public GitHub work that supports backend, automation, and infrastructure positioning

ContextWiki / MCPContentSearch

AI Infrastructure Project

Citation-ready knowledge backend that indexes Notion, Tistory, GitHub, and docs sources, then returns evidence-gated answers through MCP tools.

Repository Demo

Python FastMCP LlamaIndex ChromaDB SQLite Citations

Agent Harness Playbook + Codex Config

Engineering Workflow

Public playbook plus executable companion config for safe AI-assisted delivery: branch hygiene, dry-run safety, verification gates, and PR handoff.

Repository Codex Config

Agent Workflows Codex Skills Review Gates Dry Runs GitHub

AI News Alerts

Operational Automation

Safe scheduled Slack brief for AI infrastructure trends, built around official sources, HN signal, dry-run safety, secret-safe delivery, and tests.

Repository Slack Format

Python GitHub Actions Slack RSS Pytest

RepoLens

Developer Tooling

Next.js workspace that turns a public GitHub repository into an onboarding-ready exploration workspace with repository parsing and analysis routes.

Repository Pull Request

TypeScript Next.js Prisma GitHub Parsing Playwright

ImageGallery

DevOps Practice Project

React and Flask image app used to practice CI/CD, container packaging, Helm deployment, Kubernetes workflows, and delivery troubleshooting.

Repository Demo

React Flask Docker Kubernetes Helm Jenkins

Open Source Contributions

Apache Zeppelin Contributor

Awarded Grand Prize in the Apache Zeppelin Open Source Contribution Program for upstream code-quality, reliability, and maintainability work.

ZEPPELIN-6306

Prevented a null-pointer failure in StaticRepl with fail-fast JavaCompiler validation.

ZEPPELIN-6299

Refactored StaticRepl for readability, correctness, and modern Java usage.

ZEPPELIN-6264 / 6242

Improved InfluxDB and Neo4j interpreter code paths with safer parsing, defaults, and maintainability-focused cleanup.

Kubernetes/website#52238

Sync Korean version of ingress-minikube.md to English version

Skills & Focus

Production backend systems and AI-adjacent infrastructure

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Backend & Data Systems

Java, Kotlin, Python
Spring Boot, Batch Systems
DynamoDB, Cassandra, MySQL

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Cloud & Delivery

AWS, EKS, Kubernetes
Docker, Jenkins
GitHub Actions

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AI Engineering Tooling

MCP, Context Search
Agent Workflow Observability
Verification Harnesses

Backend & Platform EngineerEunhwa Park