Hara Kang
Head Of AI Service Department at KRAFTON Inc.
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolHara Kang is a strategic engineering leader with 12 years of experience and a nine-year focus across frontend, backend, mobile, and AI-driven platforms, now heading the AI Service Department at KRAFTON. She scaled core infrastructure and product teams as CTO of LOVO AI, building a generative video platform that surpassed $3M ARR, and earlier led resilient AI inference and Terraform-based IaC practices that improved reliability and velocity. Hara blends hands-on engineering—shipping modular mobile SDKs, CI/CD pipelines, and high-test-coverage open-source libraries—with empathetic leadership that fosters cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement. Comfortable moving between prototyping and production, she has a track record of turning research-grade models and annotation tooling into SaaS products while cutting operational cost and complexity. Trained at Seoul National University and UC Berkeley, she pairs rigorous technical depth with product-minded execution and a knack for codifying scalable development practices.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Chemical Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Chemical Biology at University of California, BerkeleyKorean Minjok Leadership Academy
English, Korean
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Github Skills (159)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
CoderSpinoza/custom-auth-samples
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
Samples showcasing how to sign in Firebase using additional Identity Providers
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 1 month
sign-inidentity-providersfirestoresignfirebase
CoderSpinoza/messenger_bot
Apr 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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