Sang Won (Wonnie) Sim
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Polo Digital Assets, Ltd (Poloniex) Boston, MA
Senior Site Reliability Engineer Nov 2019 – present
• Built, maintained, and migrated AWS infrastructure for 15+ cryptocurrency wallets and dependent services
- Updated to use S3/CodeBuild for an in-house Java artifact management system from Artifactory service
- Separated out SSM secrets based on usage (db migrations vs. application) for enhanced security
• Migrated trading platform and exchange services from AWS US to AWS EU region with 6hr downtime
- Included: VPC, VPC peering, security groups, MySQL/Postgres databases users & grants, and cross-region deployment pipelines
• Built a specialized variant of an existing service using AWSVPC & NLB to restrict the access tighter
• Led cost savings by optimizing resource allocations and researching AWS Capacity Provider/spot instance
(staging: 87% less, production: 32% less)
• Setup and built cross-account, cross-region AWS deployment pipeline to facilitate data extraction/replication
• Built ECS monitoring lambda to detect ECS task failures and capacity insufficient issues in real-time
• Automated an on-demand loadtest environment and set up a new IAM role to manage the environment securely
• Maintained production services and exchange infrastructure and day-to-day operations
• Performed regular on-call rotations and troubleshot any emergency production and development issues
• Troubleshot and upgraded cryptocurrency nodes
Circle Internet Financial Boston, MA
Senior Site Reliability Engineer Jul 2019 – Oct 2019 Site Reliability Engineer Jun 2018 – Jun 2019
• Built a cloud infrastructure for SeedInvest (acquired) including new environments and CI/CD pipelines
• Moved Poloniex exchange’s technical infrastructure from a custom data center to a scalable AWS Cloud
• Setup multiple testing environments, including CI/CD pipelines, for Poloniex’s infrastructure
• Implemented a data-lake infrastructure including encrypted cross-account data transfer
• Upgraded internal authentication/authorization services to be more secure using SAML 2.0/single sign-on Kyruus Boston, MA
Software Engineer (Pipeline Team/Client Engineering Team) Jul 2016 – May 2018
• Resolved post-sale implementations and support tasks for 20 customers, 170+ data sources
• Implemented data scraping, parsing infrastructure (python), and ElasticSearch index configurations
• Lead developer for in-house customer data management app to set up new customer accounts and data sources DevOps Engineer Sep 2015 – Jul 2016
• Lead developer for in-house web app to create AWS CloudFormation (CFN) stacks with partial pre-configs, and manage/deploy their code to existing stacks (flask, angular.js)- deploy history, DNS records, last ELB access
• Decreased deploy time 50+% by updating package install logic (ruby) and reduced AWS cost (120K -> 65K) Brown University Providence, RI
Department of Computer Science - Undergraduate Head Teaching Assistant Jan 2014 – May 2015
• Developed course materials, held weekly TA sections, and mentored on coding for 150+ students
• Courses: Digital World (fall’14: HTA), Scientific Computing and Problem Solving (sp’14: TA, sp’15: HTA) TECHNICAL TOOLS & PROJECTS
Languages: Daily experience: Python Experienced: Java Used in the past: Bash, Angular, Ractive, Ruby Tools: AWS (ECS, CloudFormation, IAM, CodePipeline, Codebuild, EC2, S3, VPC, Cloudwatch, Lambda), Linux, GIT EDUCATION
Brown University Providence, RI
Bachelors of Arts in Computer Science Class of 2015
• Awards: BSA Spark Venture Competition (1st), Henry Parker Manning Prize, Hartshorn-Hypatia Prize (1st) LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Brown Club of Boston Boston, MA
Vice President, Head of Member Engagement Feb 2019 – present
• Held monthly board meetings, organized Brown alumni events, and researched member engagements with 22K+ budget
Brown Student and Community Radio (BSR) Providence, RI Station Manager, Financial Signatory Jan 2012 – May 2015
• Oversaw the station’s ecosystem and managed finances including the annual budget proposal ($10,000+/yr)
• Hosted the Korean indie music show for 2 years