Since 2010, Woong Shin has been enrolled at Seoul National University pursuing both an MA and PhD in the Computer Science and Engineering department. His work in the Distributed Computing Systems laboratory there has consisted of systems research, developing OS-level improvements in Linux's interaction with SSDs and NVRAM devices. He expects to defend his thesis and complete his degrees early in 2017.
Before academia, Woong Shin spent seven years working for Samsung Networks and TmaxSoft as a software engineer, building monitoring tools for systems, applications, and networks.