Hoon Heo
Co-founder at Federation
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolHoon Heo is a pragmatic idealist and co-founder with 8 years of machine learning and applied AI experience, currently building Federation to transform global trade from Seoul. He progressed from research and engineering roles at KakaoBrain to technical leadership and head of applied AI at Liner, shipping production ML systems and leading teams. Hoon contributes to notable open-source NLP work—tweaking ASR examples in the well-regarded PORORO repository—demonstrating both research fluency and practical implementation skills. His background blends startup grit, hands-on engineering, and a mission-driven mindset encapsulated by his Github motto, "Change The World."
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Software Português, Bachelor's degree Software Português at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Korean, English
Github Skills (8)
voice-recognition10
speech-recognition10
automatic-speech-recognition10
natural-language-processing10
deeplearning-ai9
deep-learning9
python8
machine-learning7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kakaobrain/pororo
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
PORORO: Platform Of neuRal mOdels for natuRal language prOcessing
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 106 commits in 17 days
Contributions summary:Hoon modified an example notebook related to automatic speech recognition (ASR) by updating its content. The changes involved modifying the code within the notebook, specifically focusing on the examples and the audio file processing. These modifications were likely made to improve the functionality of the ASR, given the repository's focus on natural language processing and speech synthesis.
pytorchdeep-learninglanguage-processingspeech-synthesisnatural-language
Huffon/nlp-startups
Apr 2020 - May 2020
국내 자연어 처리 기술을 연구 및 개발하는 스타트업 목록
Contributions:36 commits, 17 PRs, 26 pushes in 18 days
nlppythonkorean-nlp
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