Suwon Chae
Senior Software Engineer at NAVER LABS Corp.
South Korea
Summary
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SeniorSuwon Chae is a senior software engineer and platform architect with 14 years of experience building server-side systems, robot management platforms, and developer tools. At NAVER and NAVER LABS he led platform engineering, served as product owner for ARC brain, and designed behavior-tree engines for robot device state management while coaching engineers and shaping onboarding and code-review programs. A hands-on full-stack contributor, he maintains open-source work such as Yona—improving UI/UX, token support, and markdown rendering—and has deep expertise in HTTP/HTTP2, Go, Java, and Web servers. Known as a code-review specialist and technical trainer, he combines pragmatic software design with developer enablement, often improving team productivity through tooling, lectures, and community initiatives. Based in South Korea, he blends architecture-level thinking with day-to-day coding, bridging robotics, distributed systems, and developer experience.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
markdown10
javascript10
markdown-it10
java7
javas7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
yona-projects/yona
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
Project Hosting SW, DEMO:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 releases, 1966 commits, 69 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Suwon focused on improving and extending the Yona project's frontend and backend functionalities. They updated the software to newer versions, fixed bugs related to private project lists and display, and enhanced the user interface through changes to the markdown rendering style and increasing readability. Furthermore, the user added support for user token, and also implemented features like image popup and checklist.
hostingjavascriptreactnodejs
yona-projects/home
Jan 2016 - Aug 2021
yona.io homepage
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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