Jaewon Lee
Solutions Architect at OpenAI
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolJaewon Lee is a Solutions Architect and AI engineer with eight years of experience building production-grade NLP and LLM systems, cloud-native microservices, and scalable search for consumer and enterprise products. He has led AI initiatives at TWO—delivering a multilingual language model (SUTRA), RAG-based memory for a 250k-user messaging app, and a semantic search platform serving hundreds of millions via Jio—before joining OpenAI. His background spans research and applied engineering from NAVER to XQuant, including domain-specific models (ESG-BERT), AutoML for chatbots, and multimodal NLU, and he regularly teaches applied AI to industry and academia. Comfortable across Python, FastAPI/Django, GCP/AWS, and vector search tooling, he blends rigorous academic training (PhD coursework at Seoul National University) with product-focused delivery. An understated strength is his track record of turning research prototypes into monetizable APIs and multilingual services at scale.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD 산업공학, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD 산업공학 at Seoul National UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Cheongshim International Academy
Github Skills (3)
python3
machine-learning1
data-science1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jaewonlee-728/fastcampus-RecSys
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 1 year
jaewonlee-728/jaewonlee-728
Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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