Robert Chung
Co-Founder at Charcoal
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Chung is a product-minded software engineer and founder with nine years of experience building scalable systems and AI-driven products from payments infrastructure at AWS to core AI features at Front. As Co-Founder of Charcoal, he’s now focused on retrieval infrastructure and an agentic search API that teaches models how to search, backed by top angels and VCs. He has a track record leading cross-functional teams as a Tech Lead and Product Manager, shipping analytics, CSAT/SLA features, and large-scale payment processing with zero-downtime migrations. Based in San Francisco, he blends hands-on implementation with product strategy, often moving between deep engineering work and customer-facing outcomes. Notably, his career shows a pattern of taking operationally critical systems—financial transactions and agent search—and turning them into reliable, production-ready services.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Seattle Pacific University
English, Korean, Spanish
Github Skills (79)
contract10
cpp10
solidity10
dapps-development10
ethereum10
blockchain10
openai-api9
gatsby9
api9
topic-modeling9
programming-language9
smart-contracts9
react9
graphql9
aws-cdk9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
robechun/dotfiles
Jun 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:40 commits, 36 pushes in 4 years 9 months
robertchung97/PersonalWebsite
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
My Personal Website
Contributions:22 pushes in 2 years 11 months
reactnextjs
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