Mark Hahn

mark.jun.hahn@gmail.com tangoenskai.github.io TangoEnSkai

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.