Resume
Somin Moon
Backend & Platform Resume
Backend engineer with production experience across cloud recovery, monitoring, and customer-facing web delivery.
Summary
Strongest in backend and platform work where reliability, operational visibility, and end-to-end ownership matter. Experience spans private cloud recovery workflows in Korea and production web delivery in Canada.
Selected impact
Validated HA recovery logic in an environment managing 50+ VMs.
Recovered 5-10 VMs on a failed node in roughly 3-5 minutes.
Built monitoring and alerting for a 50-100 GPU research cluster.
Shipped a first usable Stripe-based payment flow in about 4 weeks.
Experience
Backend Engineer - Cloud Platform
INNOGRIDWorked on backend systems for private cloud operations, including OpenStack-based recovery workflows and monitoring infrastructure used in production-style environments.
- Owned HA recovery backend logic end to end: failed-VM detection, target-node selection, priority handling, and recovery-result logging.
- Validated recovery behavior in an environment managing 50+ VMs, with a 3-5 minute sequential recovery path for 5-10 VMs on a failed node.
- Built GPU monitoring and threshold-based alerts for a 50-100 GPU cluster, reducing anomaly detection from hours to minutes for operators.
Solo Full-Stack Developer
BERODelivered production web experiences tied to business operations, including checkout flows, order handling, refunds, and responsive customer-facing pages.
- Shipped a first usable Stripe-based payment flow with 4+ core features in about 4 weeks.
- Handled frontend payment UI, backend API integration, Stripe webhook verification, and refund flows almost entirely solo.
- Continued shipping roughly 3-4 responsive pages a month after launch while meeting live client deadlines.
Web Developer
Rise PartnersBuilt and maintained responsive web experiences while supporting SEO-oriented improvements and production releases.
- Built and maintained customer-facing web pages in a production delivery setting.
- Collaborated on SEO-oriented improvements and release work for live sites.
- Contributed in an in-person team environment in Vancouver.
Core skills
- Backend development with Java, Spring Boot, APIs, and production support.
- Cloud infrastructure work spanning OpenStack integration, recovery logic, and operational visibility.
- Practical full-stack delivery across React, TypeScript, and business-critical web flows.
What a recruiter can verify quickly
- Owned recovery, monitoring, and payment-related systems instead of generic portfolio demos.
- Comfortable moving across backend, infra-adjacent work, and frontend delivery when the product path requires it.
- Most credible in roles where reliability, system behavior, and shipping judgment matter.
Education
- B.A., Economics and Business Administration
Certifications
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Engineer Information Processing
- SQL Developer
Selected projects
OpenStack HA Recovery Automation
Java-based recovery workflow for a government-grade private cloud environment.
Extended default recovery behavior so a failed node's 5-10 VMs could be detected, verified, and restarted in roughly 3-5 minutes.
JavaSpring BootOpenStack APIsHA RecoveryRaft
GPU Monitoring & Alerting
Operational dashboard and alerts for a 50-100 GPU research cluster.
Turned raw telemetry into operator-facing alerts within 1-2 minutes and reduced anomaly detection from hours to minutes.
Spring BootInfluxDBReactTime-Series Monitoring
Payment Flow Delivery
Solo delivery of checkout, order, refund, and responsive web pages.
Shipped 4+ core Stripe features in about 4 weeks, then continued delivering 3-4 customer-facing pages per month.
ReactTypeScriptStripeResponsive Web Delivery