Hoondong Kim is a seasoned technology leader and AI/ML executive, currently serving as Senior Vice President at KT and Vice President of AI/ML at EMART Inc., where he guides enterprise-scale AI production, big data, and real-time analytics for e-commerce. As a Microsoft Official AI MVP and Regional Director, he blends technical depth with strategic ecosystem leadership to drive scalable AI solutions across Korea. His career spans roles from Team Lead at SK Telecom to CTO/co-founder positions, including building chatbot agent systems for contact centers and large-scale data platforms using Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and TensorFlow on Spark. He has led efforts in personalized recommendations, NLP, and search engine ranking, delivering production-grade AI systems and microservices with Kubernetes and TPU/GPU acceleration. An alumnus of Yonsei University with a master's in computer science, he combines hands-on engineering with executive leadership, shaping AI practice from research to real-world impact. Based in South Korea, he brings a rare blend of startup agility and enterprise scale to KT AXD Center’s AI/AX professional services.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.15/4.3, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.15/4.3 at Yonsei University
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.