Terry Kwon
CEO at Yoolmu
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolTerry Kwon is a technology entrepreneur and CEO based in Seoul with a decade of experience building software and research-driven products. After engineering roles at Sendbird and a research stint at Seoul National University, he served as a research assistant at Columbia University before founding Yoolmu in 2023. His background blends hands-on engineering (including work as a research engineer during military service) with academic training in computer science and economics from Columbia and Yonsei. Terry is comfortable navigating both startup execution and research collaboration, bringing rigorous experimental thinking to product development. Fluent in cross-cultural settings from education at Shanghai American School to work in South Korea and the U.S., he leverages that global perspective to scale technical teams and solutions. Colleagues note his ability to translate complex research insights into pragmatic, market-ready software.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Shanghai American SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBSE & BA, Computer Science & Economics, BSE & BA, Computer Science & Economics at Yonsei University
English, Korean, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (50)
sendbird10
ranking9
react9
android-sample8
computer-science8
science8
chat8
sdk8
voice-activity-detection8
prosody8
speech-processing8
gatsby7
speaker-verification7
speaker-diarization7
cognitive-services7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
terrykwon/lena_evaluation
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
Code for 'Evaluating the LENA System for Korean'
Contributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 7 months
nlpnatural-language-processinglenakorean
terrykwon/captivate
Oct 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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