Summary
Jinhyung Park is a seasoned software leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO and Head of Engineering at XL8.ai, with nine years of experience spanning startups and top-tier engineering at Apple. He brings deep systems expertise in C, Objective-C, and Cocoa alongside strong proficiency in C++, Java, and Python, having built real-time backend services for FaceTime, Messaging, and other Apple connectivity features. Comfortable across Mac OS X and Unix/Linux system programming, he pairs low-level mastery with product sensibility from shipping consumer iOS apps and payment backends at Fancy. A Columbia-trained computer scientist with a mathematics background from Yonsei, he blends academic rigor with hands-on engineering and startup grit. Colleagues would note his unusual combination of OS-level networking experience and founder instincts that help bridge infrastructure and product.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Columbia Engineering
B.S. Mathematics, B.S. Mathematics at Yonsei University