Mark Hahn
Objective
SWE, SE, Researcher, Trilingual and Thinker based in Tokyo | ex-CircleCI, Mercari.
Education
Tokyo Institute of Technology - Tokyo, Japan
- Mar 2019
Master of Engineering (Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering)
Dongguk University - Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Aug 2016
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
Experience
Solutions Engineer at Circle Internet Service, Inc. (CircleCI) - Tokyo, Japan
May 2022 - Apr 2023
- Lead improvement of CI/CD design and processes with various companies based in APAC
- Support the technical implementation and day-to-day management of CircleCI Demonstrations and Trials, integrating our customers chosen technology stack
- Ensuring early customer success and a long-term business relationship
- Demonstrate and prove the technical feasibility of the CircleCI platform to highly technical audiences
- Build and launch new sales products and customer integrations to our internal teams and customer community
- Partner closely with our customer success teams to craft an outstanding customer experience for life
- Close the product feedback loop through our collaboration with Product and Engineering teams to help build product roadmaps based on market/customer requirements
- 2023/02: Application Strategy Summit NSW 2023 / CircleCI Exhibitor: introduce CircleCI as a CI/CD solution for various organisations such as government offices, enterprises, and tech companies.
- 2022/10: TECH WEEK SINGAPORE (Cloud Expo ASIA) / CircleCI Exhibitor: consulted and engaged in technical discussions with visitors who aim to improve their DevOps practices and software development lifecycles with better CI/CD strategies and automation.
- 2022/10: CircleCI's First Webinar for South Korea / Lead a technical webinar for the Korean market, got one of the most registrations and participants.
Senior Software Engineer, Microservices/Backend at Mercari, Inc. - Tokyo, Japan
Apr 2019 - May 2022
- designed, led and developed new projects into approx. 8M daily active user service
- migrated PHP monolithic API to Microservices with Golang and gRPC/Protobuf
- developed new microservices and managed to release to production
- shared knowledge internally/externally by attending tech conferences (GopherCon, gRPC Conf)
- created and conducted new software engineering training programme
- wrote and published several articles to company’s official blog, Mercan
- led a diversity community team and conducted several internal/external projects
- utilised Docker containers for development and deployment
- wrote automation tasks for continuous integration and continuous deployment
- learnt documenting code, version control using Git
- followed an agile development process including test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous releases
- wrote tests for the backend microservices
Software Engineer, Intern at Eventacular, Inc. - Tokyo, Japan
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
- developed a web service frontend using React.js and Relay
- developed a web service backend using Phoenix (a Rails-like web framework written Elixir) and GraphQL
- wrote tests for the frontend and backend
- employed tools such as Pivotal Tracker, Slack, Github, and CircleCI
Activities & Awards
- ACM SIGCHI Communication Ambassador
- Master’s thesis Final Presentation GEDES Course Outstanding Presentation Award
- Science Communication for Global Talents, Oversea Programme with Science Museum, London, UK
- Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Society and Technology; Social Design Project; Software in the Future Society
- Several Tuition Scholarships; Japan Student Services Organization Scholarship
- the First Prize for graduation project by Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Eng.; Achievements, Excellence and the President’s Special Awards for undergraduate UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) project; paper published; patent registered;
Hobbies
- Street Photography with Rangefinder Camera and 35mm films
- Guitars and Guitar Pedals
- Learning new languages
Some Quotes
- Less is more.
- Get things done.
- Avoid success at all costs.