How I Think

Resume

Lee SeungHwan

Forward Deployed Engineer

I like understanding a system well enough to explain every tradeoff in it. Six years building and shipping inside an enterprise, and thirteen personal sites run as a single system I designed end to end.

Experience

Hyundai Department Store Group6+ years

Software Engineer

  • Built Greating from launch: exhibitions, products, events, and promotions, alongside orders, membership, customer support, and infrastructure. An unusually wide scope for one engineer, and the breadth I wanted.
  • Moved deployment from manual SVN to Jenkins, then led the introduction of Bitbucket and Bamboo, writing the deployment shell scripts and leading the infrastructure analysis.
  • Took data modeling seriously, not just queries, and earned the SQLD (data modeling and SQL) certification.
  • Led Papia, the in-house AI learning crew, and brought agentic coding into the organization. First result was a Teams webhook tracker that spread internally.
  • Since November 2025, on The Hyundai e-commerce team: five global brands (COS, ARKET, & Other Stories, TOTEME, NANUSHKA) and five NCP shop-in-shops. Stack: Akamai, React, Next.js, Tomcat, Oracle.
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Sole operator

  • Operate thirteen production sites as one system: a master and one worker agent per site, around a hundred posts a day, a human in the loop only for exceptions.
  • Coordination is a mailbox and a filesystem borrowed from 1970s mail systems, chosen to be understood completely.
  • Quality is held by a context budget: base specs under two hundred lines, a narrow posting spec, and automatic indexing through IndexNow.
  • Built first-party analytics across all thirteen properties. About 80,000 page views a month, 97% from search. Revenue grew from $15 to $425 a month as market validation of the content.

Selected work

The ISR incidentDiagnosed a revenue drop caused by a rendering change, and learned to treat rendering as a revenue variable.
The migrationMoved every asset onto owned infrastructure with canonicals and 301s, absorbed an indexing incident, and recovered rankings.
A sentiment model, 2020A first-year logistic-regression model that classified every review by sentiment and category. It worked, and never shipped.

How I work

  • Understand before abstracting.
  • Measure before trusting.
  • Own what must last.
  • Move the bottleneck, don't fight it.
  • Learn top-down, when the need is real.

LinkedIn to follow. Reach me at wizet1923@gmail.com.