Uihyun Kim
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarUihyun Kim is a Senior Software Support Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience designing, operating, and tuning large-scale distributed systems, particularly the Elastic Stack and Elastic Cloud on AWS, Azure, and GCP. He specializes in observability, security, and building resilient data pipelines for indexing, searching, and visualizing high-volume data, often tackling performance and reliability at scale. At Elastic he leads customer-facing engineering efforts and creates tooling and knowledge bases to resolve complex cases—his practical innovation includes a tokenizer visualization tool for Korean and Japanese analyzers and contributions to Lucene analysis. Previously he developed and optimized Korean tokenizers for a Lucene-based Watson solution at IBM and led cross-team Java and RDBMS client initiatives at TmaxSoft. Comfortable bridging deep internals and customer outcomes, Uihyun combines research-backed knowledge-service engineering with hands-on production experience. He brings a rare combination of NLP/tokenization expertise and cloud-native operational know-how that makes him a go-to engineer for multilingual search and observability challenges.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
visualizations9
logstash9
elastic8
elasticsearch8
heartbeat8
filebeat8
kibana8
metricbeat7
packetbeat7
observability7
lucene1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
uihyun/drape
May 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:87 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
uihyun/Football-Archive
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:14 pushes in 4 months
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