Jaehyun Yeom
Principal Software Engineer at Bear Robotics
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolJaehyun Yeom is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building large-scale search, recommendation, and AI-infused systems across Google and robotics startups in the Bay Area. He led foundational work on app indexing, rich snippets, and Korean natural language support at Google, and later transitioned to product and engineering leadership at Bear Robotics, moving from software engineer to director and now principal. Technically versatile, he ships production systems in C++, Go, Java, Python, and JavaScript and has deep expertise in information retrieval, i18n, big data, and applied AI. His background includes building a search engine from scratch early in his career and creating Korean language analyzers, a thread that connects his academic training at Seoul National University to practical, production-grade NLP work. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on leader who blends low-level systems thinking with product-driven delivery in robotics and consumer-facing services. He also brings uncommon operational experience from service in the KATUSA program, which shaped his pragmatic approach to team coordination and mission-focused execution.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Engineering, BS Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National UniversityAcademic Academic, Academic Academic at Andong High School
Korean, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jaeyeom/sstable
Jan 2014 - Nov 2019
Contributions:32 commits, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 10 months
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