Infrastructure &
Distributed Systems
Engineer
Engineer at Salesforce building IAM platforms for 50K+ users. Specializing in high-throughput systems, automation, and LLM-powered workflows.
When I'm not building systems, I'm lifting, cooking Korean food, or watching questionable amounts of dog videos.

Impact at scale
IAM provisioning time
Salesforce · 100+ teams
Sprint capacity saved
Salesforce · per engineer
Internal users served
Salesforce · production IAM
Web crawler throughput
OC Vibe · 24/7 uptime
Analyst time per report
OC Vibe · 95% reduction
ML workflows processed
UC Irvine · 330+ researchers
Hackathons
Winning AI solution for STI diagnosis. Recognized by the National Academy of Medicine.
Top 3 of 80+ teams at UCI's AI Innovation Challenge.
Experience
Associate Member of Technical Staff
CurrentSalesforce · Bellevue, WA
Nov 2025 – Present
- Identity and Access Management Team
- Built event-driven Slack notification pipeline surfacing provisioning failures in real time, reducing MTTR
- Shipped Go backend services and React tooling for internal IAM platform used by 100+ engineering teams
- Designed security-compliant identity infrastructure with full audit trails and policy enforcement at scale
Software Engineer Intern
Salesforce · San Francisco, CA
Jun 2025 – Sep 2025
- Reduced identity provisioning time from 2 weeks → 10 minutes — fully automated entitlement workflows used by 100+ teams
- Automated engineer onboarding workflows, eliminating 20% of per-engineer sprint overhead
- Architected Java/SQL backend services processing hundreds of entitlement requests per day with zero data loss
- Delivered full-stack IAM platform in 12 weeks as an intern — promoted to AMTS on return offer
Research Software Engineer
UC Irvine · Irvine, CA
Jun 2024 – Apr 2025
- Built LLM system converting Jupyter notebooks into executable DAG workflows — cut ML pipeline setup from 3 weeks to 10 minutes
- Contributed to Texera: distributed data processing platform handling 31K+ executions across 330+ active researchers
- Engineered high-throughput data pipelines in Python, Java, and Scala processing large-scale ML workloads
- Designed core architecture for LLM-based workflow automation — first-of-kind system deployed at UC Irvine research lab
Software Engineer Contractor
OC Vibe · Irvine, CA
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
- Architected web crawler sustaining 10K+ pages/day — containerized on Docker with Azure CI/CD for 24/7 uptime
- Automated real estate market analysis end-to-end — cut analyst report time from 1 hour to 3 minutes (95% reduction)
- Designed multi-stage data pipelines for scraping, transforming, and storing large-scale property market datasets
- Deployed containerized microservices on Azure with rolling deployments and zero-downtime CI/CD pipeline
Projects
Get in touch
Let's build something great.
I'm open to new opportunities, collaborations, and interesting conversations. Whether it's a role, a project, or just a chat — reach out.
choiji2@uci.edu

