Hong

Backend/platform engineering — Java/Spring, Kotlin, databases (Cassandra, Redis, MySQL), Kafka, Kubernetes. Plus developer education: turning complex systems into runnable, teachable material.

How AI agents and LLM tooling change developer onboarding — and what that means for tools entering non-English markets like Korea.

koreafirstrun.dev — helping overseas developer tools get Korean developers past first-run to their first useful moment. Onboarding and adoption, not translation.

Talking with dev-tool teams about reaching Korean developers — first-run, onboarding, and adoption. Happy to share how Korean devs evaluate tools. Free async first-run reviews: koreafirstrun.dev