Minwooย Byeon
ML Research Engineer at TwelveLabs
Seongnam-si, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolMinwoo Byeon is an ML research engineer and entrepreneur with 11+ years building large-scale AI systems, from multi-GPU distributed training to production LLM-powered search. As co-founder of Open Research Inc. he shipped an AI search service that reached up to 2M MAU and led LLM prompt engineering, web-scale crawling, and retrieval optimizations. At Kakao Brain and Kakao he drove dataset construction (including the widely used COYO-700M image-text corpus), TPU cost-efficiency evaluations, and distributed data pipelines that enabled reproducible multimodal research. Now at TwelveLabs he continues to bridge research and product, focusing on inference and model engineering for real-world applications. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who turns large, messy datasets and infrastructure constraints into deployable, high-impact AI services.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at Kangwon National University
English, Korean
Github Skills (87)
parallel10
dataflow10
python10
mxnet10
donut10
hyperparameter-optimization10
deep-learning10
ray10
efficientnet10
optimization10
javascript10
llm-inference10
transformer10
gpt10
julia10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mwbyeon/kaggle-cdiscount
Sep 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:118 commits, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 7 months
kakaobrain/coyo-dataset
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
COYO-700M: Large-scale Image-Text Pair Dataset
Contributions:3 reviews, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 2 months
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