Ilho Ahn is a data scientist with 12 years of experience building production-grade AI systems across commerce, gaming, and finance, currently engineering LLM-driven personalization and automation at CJ OliveYoung in Seoul. He has a proven track record of boosting recommendation CTRs twofold by fine-tuning sentence-transformer models and of adapting open-source small LLMs (e.g., Google Gemma) for extraction, generation, and validation tasks. Earlier roles span AI engineering for fashion search and multi-modal style classification at MUSINSA, fraud and retention modeling at KRAFTON, and domain-specific language and document AI solutions at KPMG’s Lighthouse Center. Comfortable moving models from research to scalable pipelines, he combines deep ML modeling with practical data engineering and MLOps to automate analysis and deliver product-ready features. A life-sciences bachelor by training, he brings a pragmatic, interdisciplinary approach to noisy, subjective datasets and real-world production constraints.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Life Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Life Science at Cheongju University
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