Sangwon Kim
유닛장 at 카카오페이 (kakaopay)
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSangwon Kim is a product-focused leader and founder with nine years of hands-on experience building and scaling consumer-facing services, now serving as Unit Head at KakaoPay. He has led payments and transaction initiatives at Bungaejangter, founded PeakPay and SimpleCompany, and served as CPO at Patches—bridging product strategy, service design, and business operations. Sangwon is skilled at rapid validation and sustainable scaling, combining service design roots with startup grit to turn small experiments into robust product lines. His background spans public-sector project management and launching physical service operations, giving him uncommon strength in cross-functional execution and logistics-informed product thinking. Based in Seoul, he aims to deliver meaningful impact by solving real user problems through strategic, human-centered solutions.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Environmental Engineering / 환경공학, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Environmental Engineering / 환경공학 at Konkuk University기계자동차공학, 기계자동차공학 at Kookmin UniversityMaster's degree Knowledge Service Engineering, Master's degree Knowledge Service Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Github Skills (2)
python1
java1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hero4earth/hero4earth.github.io
Dec 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
hero4earth/road_of_DS
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes in 3 days
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