Shayne Kang
Co-Founder & Chief Data Officier
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolShayne Kang is a Seoul-based founder and Chief Data Officer with 12 years of experience building startups, shipping production systems, and scouting deep-technology ventures for a $10B+ Korean IT firm. He blends hands-on software engineering—early work on high-scale game servers and Ruby on Rails products—with AI/ML productization today at his company The Next School. An active open-source contributor, Shayne created omniauth-kakao and has improved prominent projects like KoNLPy, XGBoost and scikit-learn, often tackling installation and cross-platform compatibility challenges. He also mentors Korea’s top engineering talent through the government-backed Software Maestro program, and his background in corporate venture scouting gives him a rare perspective on technical due diligence and early-stage startup fit.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Science, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Science at Hanyang UniversityGeneral sciences, General sciences at Tokyo Korean School
Korean, English, Japanese
Github Skills (10)
python10
nlp9
installer8
postinstall8
reinstall8
packaging8
setuptools8
installers8
py8
documentation7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
konlpy/konlpy
May 2016 - May 2016
Python package for Korean natural language processing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Shayne primarily focused on improving the installation process and dependencies of the KoNLPy package. Their commits involved decoupling JPype dependencies during installation, moving them to the install_requires section, and addressing platform-specific compatibility issues, specifically for Windows. They also updated documentation related to the installation process.
nlppythonmorphologylanguage-processingnatural-language
shaynekang/omniauth-kakao
May 2014 - Aug 2016
OmniAuth strategy for Kakao
Contributions:45 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 3 months
omniauth-strategyomniauthrubystrategykakao
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