Alex (Hyeonkyu Han) | AI-Native Full-Stack Engineer
Senior Tech Lead specializing in Healthcare, Pharma, and Insurance Domains Γ AI Agent Orchestration
"An End-to-End Problem Solver bridging Production Multi-Agent Systems with High-Performance Backend Architectures"
π‘ Core Strengths & Value Propositionβ
π― Tech Stack (Production Ready)β
AI / ML
LangGraphLangChainOpenAI/GeminivLLMTorchHuggingFaceWeaviateChromaBackend
Go FiberAsynqRedisPostgreSQLNestJSFastAPIExpressJSCeleryDevOps / Data
K8sGCP / AzureTerraformArgoCDAirflowDatabricksPowerBISpotfireIntroduce.
From early-stage startup developer to the core PM at an InsurTech unicorn, and currently the Pipeline Tech Lead at the world's leading healthcare big data platform, I am a Senior Tech Lead who has dynamically managed business growth. I am driven by the fundamental question: "Does this architecture meet the business goals and significantly improve the operational efficiency of the entire team?"
π Key Business Impactsβ
| Project Domain | Legacy State | Modernized State | Business Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical ETL Pipeline | Single-thread crawler (17 hours) | Go + Asynq Distributed Queueing | 99.5% Time Reduced (< 5 mins) |
| SaaS CRM Platform | Isolated setup per client (5 months) | Multi-Tenant Autoprovisioning | 100x Speedup (Deployed in 1 day) |
| Data Verification | Manual processing by 2 analysts | Airflow Automated Pipeline | 85% Drop in Ops Costs & Error Rate |
| Insurance AI Engine | Legacy Combination Algo O(N^3) | Condition Filters + ML Modeling | 40x Latency Improvement |
π Highlighted Projectsβ
In preparation for an upcoming global security audit (July), our organization urgently needed to resolve critical vulnerabilities identified in Pen-Tests and modernize the legacy cloud infrastructure that posed severe risks.**[Strategy]**
I led the architectural shift towards a 'Zero-Trust' design for all network access and CI/CD lifecycles. By integrating automated vulnerability scanning (SAST/DAST) directly into GitLab pipelines, I established a robust, company-wide DevSecOps ecosystem.
- Architected a Hub & Spoke network topology with Azure Firewall to enable centralized traffic inspection and rigorously isolate outbound routings via NSG policies.
- Enforced a strict No Public IP environment by configuring Azure Application Gateways, Private Endpoints, and integrated Web Application Firewalls (WAF) to defend against malicious traffic.
- Introduced Azure Key Vault for robust secret management, strictly decoupling application credentials from any codebases.
- Deployed custom virtual network-bound private GitLab Runners to physically eliminate external CI/CD exposure risks.
- Adopted Terraform (IaC) to prevent misconfigurations and maintain state-driven, version-controlled cloud infrastructure deployments.
- Dev Phase: Mandated automated scanning for DS, SAST, SD, CS, and DAST on every push event, blocking unverified deployments.
- Test Phase: Streamlined Continuous Integration by auto-deploying to an internal QA subnet.
- Prod Phase: Implemented a 3-Tier deployment strategy where production releases required manual triggers post-technical approval.
- Resolved 100% of newly exposed Pen-Test infrastructure vulnerabilities prior to deadlines.
- Proactively refactored obsolete CoffeeScript/Angular bases into modern TypeScript React stacks.
- Managed major version upgrades for internal NuxtJS properties and Scala PlayFramework services to patch known security flaws.
- Successfully passed the rigorous global technical approval guidelines (TDC & TDA).
- **Stable Enterprise Architecture:** Elevated the internal infrastructure to gracefully comply with rigid global security audits.
- **Security-First Culture:** Enforced an automated pre-deployment gateway, significantly reducing human-errors and runtime vulnerabilities.
Our previous workflow required manually building an isolated CRM app for every new pharmaceutical client, taking an average of 5 months per delivery. Fragmented infrastructure completely blocked any scalability.**[Strategy]**
To solve this bottleneck, I conceptualized and spearheaded the transition into a Multi-Tenant SaaS platform, shifting the paradigm from 'developing features' to 'injecting configurations', enabling automated CRM provisioning with a few clicks.
- Abstracted healthcare domain complexities into an elegant Config-driven architecture.
- Enhanced the backend and frontend engines to dynamically render UI layouts, models, and business logic instantly upon config injection.
- Developed an Admin portal that instantly assigns data schemas and access routing templates whenever a new client organization is created.
- Designed a Zero-Code environment allowing non-technical teams (Sales/Ops) to set up and launch full demo environments without any dev intervention.
- **Delivery Time Plunged:** Reduced new CRM setup duration from 5 months to less than 1 day.
- **Drastic Maintenance Drop:** Consolidated fragmented legacy bases into a single core engine, massively reducing code-managing overhead.
- Empowered sales teams to instantly control live demos, accelerating client contracting cycles.
Public medical and pharmaceutical data was being gathered through scattered manual verifications, resulting in frequent data loss and critical human errors.**[Strategy]**
I abolished the legacy decentralized approach and established a centralized, high-performance data pipeline leveraging Go-based crawlers and Airflow, funneling everything into an organized Data Catalog Portal.
- Deployed Python (Selenium/Celery) crawlers for dynamically rendered pages, while assigning high-velocity scraping streams to lightweight Go (Fiber) + Asynq worker queues.
- Embedded strong concurrency management and automated Retry mechanisms to guarantee data integrity.
- Orchestrated the entire lifecycle (Crawling β Transform β Validation β Load) through Airflow DAGs, ensuring total operational transparency.
- Standardized disparate data via Databricks cleansing models, perfectly relating external sets to internal proprietary database structures.
- Architected an internal API Data Portal application, empowering non-technical stakeholders to independently query and export cleansed data from the unified Data Lake.
- Completely replaced manual verification cycles with automated, error-free pipelines.
- Unified isolated domain data into a single, cohesive Data Lake Catalogue.
The legacy Scala/Play framework stack was severely bottlenecking the daily batch jobs, consuming up to 17 agonizing hours to process pharma licensing data.**[Strategy]**
Rather than applying a temporary patch, I executed a complete architectural migration, replacing the backend engine with an ultra-fast Go (Fiber) environment integrated with Redis-backed Asynq asynchronous queues.
- Overcame I/O chokepoints by writing lightweight Go-based worker logic.
- Designed a system that dynamically monitors Pending Queues, allowing worker nodes to instantly Scale Out and absorb heavy loads.
- Migrated massive legacy metadata structures heavily tied to MySQL stored procedures over to a clean PostgreSQL ecosystem.
- Restructured DB schemas to drastically minimize table dead-locks during highly concurrent inserts.
- Modernized the Admin viewer relying on outdated templates into a sleek, responsive Next.js application.
- **Mind-Blowing ETL Optimization:** Accelerated daily batch ingestion from 17 hours down to a mere 5 minutes.
- Eliminated idle cloud resource wastage via auto-scaling, driving infrastructure downtime practically to 0%.
π Professional Work Historyβ
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IQVIA is the world's leading provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry. I lead Full-Stack SaaS Platforms and manage AI & Data Engineering Infrastructures.
- Enforced automated CI/CD infrastructures via GitLab on Azure in strict compliance with Global Security Guidelines.
- Deployed serverless architectures to strengthen cost-efficient cloud defensibility.
- Managed the complete migration of client instances into a unified Multi-Tenant SaaS platform, controlled entirely via dynamic configurations.
- Accelerated CRM rollout durations to a single day by applying Zero-Code principles on the internal admin UI.
- Architected a massive 100% automated data-gathering pipeline utilizing distributed Go and Python crawlers.
- Managed large-scale Data Lakes driven by Airflow & Databricks environments and launched a unified API Catalogue web portal.
- Designed and rolled out internal RAG AI services using PgVector, Langchain, and OpenAI models.
- Served FastAPI inference endpoints and configured cloud dashboards integrating Spotfire & PowerBI.
- Re-engineered critical batch pipelines to dramatically lower computing latency from 17 hrs to < 5 mins using Go and Asynq.
- Orchestrated independent dev/prod server environments using Nginx, Jenkins, and KT Cloud.
Aijinet (InsurTech Platform 'Bodoc')
An InsurTech Series-C Unicorn boasting a 99% retention rate and surpassing 300 Billion KRW in cumulative brokerage volume.
- Circumvented unreliable 3rd-party billers by actively developing an in-house Go-powered Auto-PDF mapping engine.
- Reduced brokerage costs by deploying independent Fax/Mail delivery pipelines.
- Incorporated 3-Class ML models based on Sklearn Logistic Regression to analyze personalized credit information.
- Pioneered a filtering-strategy parameter algorithm to bypass strict O(N^3) barriers during combination processing.
- Protected production server stability by segregating database activity logging into out-of-band ElasticSearch & GCP BigQuery clusters.
- Developed business tracking logics using deep-links to augment client retention metrics.
- Assisted in refactoring legacy codebases into modern React architectures.
Early Stage Medical Data Engineering & Backend Consolidation
- Built comprehensive Python OCR text extraction tools to digitize physical health inspection sheets.
- Performed technical debt migrations adopting ReactJS and ExpressJS frameworks.
π Freelancer & Side Projects
8am (B2C & B2B Match Platform)
- Designed a scalable NestJS/NextJS matchmaking platform for contractors and clients.
- Orchestrated robust production environments via AWS & Docker pipelines.
- Released native Flutter apps heavily relying on BLE data sync protocols.
- Quantified patient activity by compiling raw 3-axis gyro/accelerometer sensory data.
Grablo (No-code IoT Controller Builder)
- Enabled zero-downtime migrations into Google Cloud Platform (GKE).
- Consulted on optimizing GraphQL payloads to handle global request loads reliably.
- Participated across the entire design lifecycle (Figma) down to releasing the SvelteJS/Flutter UI.
- Secured Oracle Cloud backend allocations.
- Refactored NestJS API endpoints from older codebase instances and configured extensive Swagger Docs.
- Integrated comprehensive Retool dashboards for internal managers.
- Collaborated on shaping internal React platforms used for publisher/game supply management.
π οΈ Skills & Tools (Production Proven)
Listed below are primary architectures and stacks utilized safely through Production Environments.
AI / LLM Engineering
Backend & Distributed Systems
Frontend & App
Data & MLOps
Cloud & DevOps
Summary & Next Stepβ
"An engineer who designs systems where code efficiency translates directly into business growth value."
I highly prioritize the Single Responsibility Principle, robust testing, and clean CI/CD container cultures. I have consistently demonstrated tangible impacts bridging AI models and complex business pipelines in Healthcare and InsurTech. If you are looking for a reliable technical leader to shape out Agentic Workflows and drastically boost your team's engineering velocity, I am fully prepared.
