Hi, I'm Minuk Hwang.

I am a Product-Minded Frontend Engineer who bridges the gap between design, code, and business.
I build scalable architectures that optimize performance and contribute to sustainable product growth.

Core

State & Styling

Creative & 3D

DevOps & Tools

Aug 2024 - Present

Key Achievement: Optimized UI architecture & rendering performance for fan commerce platform (100k+ users)

• Performance Optimization: Optimized sprite-based effects with a custom tool, reducing asset size by 75% (8MB → 2MB) and minimizing visual flicker.
• Architecture: Designed a declarative UI architecture using the Builder Pattern, reducing implementation time by 87% (1 day → under 1 hour).
• Payment Module: Engineered a unified payment module for both PC (iframe) and mobile (redirect) flows, standardizing 12+ exception cases.
• System Design: Structured a headless component layer with Radix primitives to support multi-brand design systems (FC Seoul, FC Anyang, etc.).

Jun 2021 - Mar 2022

Key Achievement: Enhanced user engagement through data-driven UX design

• UX Strategy: Spearheaded service planning for the pre-owned luxury market by analyzing user pain points and designing UX-driven flows.
• Growth: Redesigned 'Style Challenge' reward mechanics, increasing unique user participation by 50% (2k → 3k).
• Marketing: Revamped Instagram strategy, enhancing content aesthetics and driving 20,000+ follower growth.

→ Frontend Impact: This experience shaped my approach to building UIs—I now design component APIs and user flows with conversion metrics and behavioral data in mind.

Tech: Next.js 15, React 19, TypeScript, Three.js (GLSL), pnpm Monorepo

A web platform that helps users understand emotional patterns by visualizing daily moods as evolving 3D planets.

• Problem: Traditional mood trackers rely on text logs, making it hard to spot emotional patterns over time.
• Solution: Transforms emotion data into organic 3D visuals—each planet's color, texture, and motion reflects the user's emotional state.
• Rendering: Implemented custom GLSL shaders for real-time organic planet generation.
• Architecture: Designed a pnpm monorepo to share logic between the Next.js web app and Chrome extension.
• Auth: Built OAuth 2.0 flow with custom JWT lifecycle (15-min access / 30-day refresh) and cross-context session sync.

• Yonsei University - B.A. Human Environment & Design (GPA: 4.14/4.5)
• Samsung Software Academy For Youth (SSAFY) - Web Development (Project Excellence Award)
• Google Developer Student Clubs (GDSC) - Core Member (Solution Challenge Top 100)

🎨 Beyond Code: Philosophy & Visuals (Click to expand)

Why "White"?

Light combines to form White, and I combine disciplines to create Value.
I integrate Engineering, Design, and Business to build products that are
technically sound, visually compelling, and commercially successful.

🔵 Engineering creates Stability
🟢 Design creates Usability
🔴 Business creates Impact

= ⚪️ Minuk Hwang (The White Light)

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