Hobum Kwon
Corporate Vice President
South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolHobum Kwon is a seasoned software executive and Corporate Vice President leading the Platform Team at Samsung Research, with over 20 years building platforms, SDKs, runtimes, APIs, web, .NET, Flutter, IoT and on-device AI services. He has driven the Linux-based Tizen platform to deployment on hundreds of millions of consumer devices—over 330–400 million across TVs, wearables, CE, IoT and robots—balancing deep technical architecture with product-scale delivery. A former principal engineer and NYU Tandon MS in Computer Science, he combines hands-on systems design with executive leadership to shepherd long-lived platform investments. Notably, his career spans both early web commerce systems in New York and decades of embedded and consumer OS work in South Korea, signaling a rare blend of internet-era service engineering and device-level platform mastery.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Github Skills (7)
dotnet10
tizen10
csharp10
graphic5
drawing3
opengl2
skia1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
Samsung/Tizen-CSharp-Samples
Oct 2017 - Dec 2019
Tizen C# Samples for Mobile, Wearable, and TV profiles.
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 1 month
tizendotnetcsharpwearable
Samsung/TizenFX
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
C# Device APIs for Tizen
Contributions:3 commits in 5 months
dotnetc-sharpcsharptizenfxdevice-apis
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