# Homin Lee
Secure Systems & AI Integration Engineer

URL: https://homin.dev/resume/
Email: i@homin.dev
Location: Pangyo, Korea
GitHub: https://github.com/suapapa
Website: https://homin.dev

## Summary

Senior software engineer with 20+ years of experience delivering secure, mission-critical systems across embedded platforms, cloud-native infrastructures, and AI services.
Known for bridging technical silos between hardware, cloud backend, and AI teams—resolving architectural bottlenecks early and accelerating delivery.
Brings end-to-end execution with a strong focus on security architecture, from Uptane-compliant automotive OTA updates to resilient, high-volume AI telephony and inference pipelines.

## Skills

### Languages

- Go
- C / C++
- Rust
- Python

### Cloud & Infrastructure

- Kubernetes
- Docker
- GCP / AWS
- GitOps
- CI/CD pipelines

### System & Security Engineering

- Secure OTA systems (Uptane)
- High-throughput networking (SIP/RTP)
- AI & RAG system integration
- Linux systems administration

### Architecture & Platform

- Distributed transaction orchestration (Saga pattern)
- Microservices architecture (MSA)
- Android HAL & native framework (Binder)
- Linux kernel modules & drivers

### Inter-Team & Technical Leadership

- Cross-functional technical alignment
- Hardware / Backend / AI integration
- Pragmatic architectural decision-making

## Professional Experience

### 42dot — Software Engineer
Aug 2023 - NOW

- Led Mobile Backend incident-response readiness, defining P0/P1 criteria and response roles, creating a shared playbook, and establishing measurable drill and continuous-improvement processes with an AI-powered response assistant.
- Design, implement, and operate an end-to-end OTA (Over-the-Air) update system for Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV), applying the Uptane framework for cryptographically secure firmware delivery.

### Kakao Enterprise — Software Engineer
Dec 2019 - July 2023

- Built a distributed Saga transaction orchestration platform on Kubernetes with dynamically configurable transaction steps via ConfigMaps.
- Architected and developed high-throughput SIP/RTP telephony services for the KICC AI contact center, reliably processing 6,000+ voice bot calls daily.
- Developed the embedded OTA client and factory test server for the Mini Hexa smart speaker.

### Kakao — Software Engineer
Nov 2017 - Dec 2019

- Engineered core platform services and device integrations for Kakao Mini and Kakao Mini C smart speakers.

### KossLab — Researcher
Jan 2016 - Oct 2017

- Conducted open-source research and developed Go-based IoT framework libraries and tooling.

## Open Source

### Top-Ranked Go Developer in Korea

- Ranked in the top tier of Go developers in South Korea (suapapa on GitHub (https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=language%3AGo+location%3AKorea&s=&type=Users&utf8=%E2%9C%93))
- Authored and maintain 10+ open-source Go packages (https://github.com/suapapa?utf8=%E2%9C%93&tab=repositories&q=go_&type=&language=)

### Key Open Source Contributions

- github.com/firebase/genkit/go (https://github.com/firebase/genkit/go)
- github.com/cloudwebrtc/go-sip-ua (https://github.com/cloudwebrtc/go-sip-ua)
- github.com/muka/go-bluetooth (https://github.com/muka/go-bluetooth)

## Certifications

- Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate V2 (https://www.credly.com/badges/c6183447-4258-45b0-88ff-dd8c32a86e85), Coursera (2025)
- CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/27add032-b7d4-4a93-93f4-ee5d5b0b4985/public_url), The Linux Foundation (2020) - expired

## Education & Background

### Inha University — B.S. in Computer Engineering
Incheon, Korea, Mar 1997 - Feb 2004


### Korean ARMY — Sergeant
April 1999 - May 2001