Hi, I'm Sook. A web developer.
I wandered in from the world of data, stumbled around, and stayed for the joy of crafting user interfaces for the web.
I began my career as a data analyst after finishing college in 2015, and did that for about four years before I jumped into web development. In hindsight, it was always the visual side of data—the charts, the tables, the interfaces—that truly pulled me in.
An insatiable curiosity about how the tools I used daily actually worked—web apps like RStudio Server and Jupyter Notebook, which felt almost indistinguishable from desktop apps in terms of interactivity—probably also contributed to my wanting to become a web developer.
While web technology has become astonishingly capable, building for the web is still a tricky craft. Different devices, different browsers, and even different environments like WebViews or in-app browsers—it's no wonder how easy it is to introduce regressions or break a layout with a single change. These challenges grow exponentially when you're not building alone.
Still, I believe great products are built by great teams—and great teams are built on trust, transparency, and mutual respect. That's the kind of team I want to be a part of. And the best way I know to earn that place is to become a more competent, thoughtful engineer myself.
So here I am, trying to be a better web dev than yesterday, every day. 🌱
Generating static content at build time is almost always a win—and that's exactly what Astro excels at. At the same time, it seamlessly integrates with React, letting you pre-render and hydrate interactive components only where needed. Astro + React hybrid approach brings the best of both worlds—performance and interactivity.
What started as a fun side project—setting up a Hadoop/Spark cluster with physical mini PCs—turned out to be surprisingly useful later when I repurposed it as a Kubernetes dev cluster at work.