Summary
Seonbeom Kim is a recommendation systems researcher-engineer with eight years of experience building personalized ranking and embedding solutions for large consumer products. Currently at Kakao, he works on search-related keyword recommendations, app home feed personalization, and user embedding research to improve engagement across services. Previously at Buzzni he led a wide range of personalization projects—from content and product ordering on home screens to search personalization, related-item recommendations, and semantic tagging pipelines. He holds a master's in Computer Software Engineering from Hanyang University and a bachelor's in Computer Science from Sangmyung University, blending academic rigor with production experience. Known for pragmatic experimentation, he bridges research and engineering to ship online A/B-tested recommender features. Outside work his public GitHub signals ongoing curiosity in implicit-feedback recommendation tooling and reproducible code.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Sangmyung University
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Hanyang University