The Beginning of Curiosity
I first met computers in elementary school in Busan, in the 1980s. Through the 1990s as a computer science student, curiosity led before the major did — and that current carried me from set-top box firmware to search, mobile OSes, cloud, and industrial AI.
Growth and Learning at Google
In 2007 I joined Google's Seoul office as one of its earliest members. I started as an engineer and became a manager, moving between Search, App Indexing, Play Store, Lens, and Cloud Logging. Some years I spent growing a single demo into an organization; other years I spent growing people inside a finished product. Some of that worked. Some of it quietly folded.
Expanding Horizons
In 2022 I worked as VP of Engineering at Banksalad. I then served as CTO at INEEJI, Adjunct Professor at KAIST College of Business, and Distinguished Software Engineer at MegazoneCloud — and co-founded Aisle Street, an education-AI startup building exemplar.ai.
Sharing the Path
Building, leading, teaching, writing — and lending a hand alongside. Between Silicon Valley's speed and Korea's context, between the engineer's hands and the leader's sight, still learning, still glad to share.
The Heart: People and Technology
Where technology has passed, there have always been people. The editor I used alone, the colleagues in the organization, the classroom I stand in now — in the end, it was always about connecting people to people, and people to technology.