Taehoon Kang
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Coupang
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolTaehoon Kang is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Seoul with a decade of experience delivering scalable, mission-critical systems across transportation, logistics, and consumer technology. He currently leads Fulfillment & Transportation Systems at Coupang (since 2023), focusing on reliable delivery platforms and high-throughput pipelines. His background includes senior roles at Zoox (simulation workload orchestration) and Embark Trucks, giving him deep expertise in distributed systems, scheduling, and autonomous-vehicle workloads. His career also spans Uber, Yelp, Samsung Research America, NAVER, NCsoft, and other tech giants, reflecting a record of leadership and cross-domain impact. A Tongmyong University of Information Technology alumnus with a BE, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic vision to translate complex requirements into robust, scalable architectures.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at Tongmyong University of Information Technology
Korean, English
Github Skills (6)
codename7
sdk7
python5
sentry4
javascript3
nodejs3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fguy/coding-practice
Nov 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes in 8 months
fguy/tic-tac-toe
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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