Collective
We teach distributed systems like editors, not announcers
Surgenet Institute began as a late-night critique circle for platform leads who wanted sharper language around queues, caches, and failure drills. Today it is an advanced engineering academy with seminar-style cohorts, but the editorial pace remains: fewer slogans, more annotated diagrams.
Principles
- Evidence over ego: Skew charts beat swagger in reviews.
- Calm incidents: Scripts include comms, not only commands.
- Regional honesty: Korean operational realities shape scenarios.
- No mythic scale: We talk about spend tiers and latency budgets plainly.
Milestones
2019
First invite-only boundary review night in Seoul—ten engineers, one wall of maps.
2022
Formalized rubric library and async mentor threads for overseas teammates.
2025
Hybrid studios with trace budget sprints and gallery-walk critiques.
People
Architecture instructor
Haneul Park
Leads boundary cartography studios; former platform lead in logistics routing.
Systems reviewer
Sora Kwon
Stress-tests async diagrams; specializes in broker-neutral choreography.
Architecture instructor
Jiwon Han
Caches, TTL ladders, and trace overlays for catalog-scale traffic.
Seminar moderator
Daeun Choi
Facilitates failure scenario workshops with calm, timeboxed cadences.
Systems reviewer
Mira Song
Horizontal scaling clinics with skew radar charts and evidence-first debates.
Architecture instructor
Kenji Mori
Observability blueprinting with cardinality guardrails and humane dashboards.
Learner coordinator
Yuna Lee
Keeps cohort logistics breathable—schedules, accessibility, mentor pairings.