Hoondong Kim
Senior Vice President at (주)이마트 (EMART Inc.)
South Korea
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Top SchoolHoondong Kim is a seasoned enterprise AI and AX transformation leader with over two decades of experience building production-scale AI, cloud-native platforms, and agentic systems across telecom and retail giants like KT, SK Telecom, and E-Mart. He combines executive-level strategy—having built and led a 150-person FDE-style AX delivery organization that completed 45 engagements in a year—with hands-on technical work, personally prototyping agent architectures, LLMOps/MLOps patterns, and Kubernetes-based GPU platforms. His expertise spans agentic AI, context and ontology engineering, VLM fine-tuning, and AI orchestration, enabling him to translate CIO/CTO strategy into measurable business outcomes from MVPs to full production. A 10-year Microsoft AI MVP and Regional Director in Korea, he actively shapes industry and government AI discussions and has driven award-winning partner collaborations with Microsoft. An underappreciated strength is his consistent practice of validating emerging AI frameworks in real deployments before scaling them enterprise-wide, ensuring pragmatic, resilient adoption.
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
Github Skills (18)
data-set7
application-server4
mobx-react4
conversation4
keras4
deep-learning3
docker3
tensorflow3
chatbot3
react3
uwsgi3
server3
isomorphic3
training-data3
seq2seq2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hoondongkim/syntaxnet-kr
Aug 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
koreantrainingtraining-datadata-set
hoondongkim/SSG_Bot_Infra
May 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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