Hyunik Cho
Principal at Kakao Ventures
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolHyunik Cho is a Principal at Kakao Ventures in Seoul with a decade of experience bridging software engineering, product strategy, and venture operations. He progressed through associate roles into leadership at Kakao Ventures, applying hands-on engineering discipline to investment and portfolio support. His open-source contributions include back-end development and test automation for the popular dendron PKM project, where he strengthened markdown testing and test utilities—showing attention to reliability and developer experience. With academic roots at National University of Singapore and Waseda University, he blends international liberal studies and economics with technical practice. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who prioritizes robust testing and reproducible workflows when moving ideas to production. Notably, he leverages both startup advisory experience and deep test automation skills to de-risk early-stage technical bets.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, International Liberal Studies, Bachelor of Arts, International Liberal Studies at Waseda UniversityBachelor of Arts, Economics, University Scholars Programme, Bachelor of Arts, Economics, University Scholars Programme at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (10)
unit-testing10
markdown10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
markdown-it10
typescript-types10
test-automation10
testing10
cicd4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dendronhq/dendron
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:578 reviews, 510 commits, 300 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Hyunik contributed to the development and testing of the MarkdownPod feature. Their work involved adding various test cases for the MarkdownPod and MarkdownPublishPod modules, including those specific to Dendron's markdown implementation. They focused on creating comprehensive tests, removing unnecessary test code, and verifying the behavior of notes with links and references. They also integrated changes within common-test-utils to improve test coverage, specifically regarding test setups for different test environments.
pkmknowledgevscodezettelkastenpersonal-knowledge-management
hikchoi/cerebrarium
Dec 2020 - May 2023
Contributions:99 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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