Summary
Will Ryu is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 14 years building large-scale systems in information retrieval, payments, NLP, flight search, and data visualization, most recently leading AI and product efforts as CEO of Tobl and OXOpolitics and as Adjunct Professor of Business in San Francisco. He spent pivotal years at Twitter and Airbnb designing language processing, search quality, and high-throughput payments and transportation systems, and he authored widely used Korean NLP tools such as open-korean-text. A bilingual author of two Korean books on professional growth and Silicon Valley, Will blends rigorous academic training in information science with hands-on engineering across Java, Scala, Python, and React. He’s turned political data into a community-driven analytics platform (OXOpolitics) and consistently ships production ML and search solutions that bridge research and real-world impact.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student Linguistics, Exchange Student Linguistics at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Advanced Certificate ESL, Advanced Certificate ESL at University College of the Fraser Valley
Master of Library and Information Science Library and Information Science, Master of Library and Information Science Library and Information Science at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Ph. D degree seeker Information Science, Ph. D degree seeker Information Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Master of Library and Information Science Library and Information Science, Master of Library and Information Science Library and Information Science at Yonsei University
Korean, English