Summary
Hongjoon Choi is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building production ML and parsing systems across Korea and Hong Kong, currently focused on legal-document parsers and developer IDE tools at BoostDraft. He combines applied machine learning, performance-minded engineering and domain-specific data pipelines—previously delivering on-prem analytics for a steel plant and efficient computer-vision POCs for banking with model quantization and feature-reduction techniques. A third-culture kid educated at HKUST and international schools, he brings cross-cultural communication skills and product empathy, having supported VoC, CS and sales as a first market hire. His background in robotics and embedded controls (regional Robocon champion) and teaching experience inform a pragmatic, safety-conscious approach to system design. After overcoming personal setbacks during graduate studies, he treats resilience and continuous learning as professional strengths that shape how he navigates complex, high-stakes projects.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, International Baccalaureate, High School, International Baccalaureate at Overseas Family School Singapore
Bilingual Diploma, HL Math, HL Physics, SL Computer Science, Bilingual Diploma, HL Math, HL Physics, SL Computer Science at International Baccalaureate
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Korean, Chinese, Japanese