Summary
Shangyup Kim is a Seoul-based CEO and founder with 11 years of product and engineering experience building consumer and enterprise web products. As CEO of ZEP he leads the gamification of education and events, turning routine experiences into engaging, interactive platforms. His background spans founding consumer startups (Dailyshot, SeoulPrice), leading rapid web product delivery at NAVER Z, and product management work at SNOW focused on visual content automation and AR. Comfortable shipping a new web product every month, he blends hands-on full-stack execution with strategic business formation and fundraising-adjacent roles like litigation finance advising. Known for a direct "get things done" style, he pairs Seoul National University training in management science with practical startup grit and a track record of launching product-backed ventures in Korea.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
학사, 벤처경영학 연합전공, 학사, 벤처경영학 연합전공 at 서울대학교 (Seoul National University)
경영학, 경영학 at 上海交通大学
English, Chinese, Korean, Japanese