Yeonghoon Park
Co-Founder & CEO at Taurus Labs Pte Ltd
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolYeonghoon Park is a seasoned software leader and founder with 14 years of experience building high-scale consumer and infrastructure products from Seoul. As Co-Founder and CEO of Taurus Labs and former CTO of Momo Project, he blends product-focused leadership with deep hands-on engineering across mobile, backend, and data pipelines. His tenure at Kakao included architecting chatbot and recommender systems in Scala and improving CI/CD, IaC, and telemetry for 50+ microservices, while earlier work shipped KakaoTalk features used by hundreds of millions. He also co-founded SeoulBus, a real-time transit app adopted by millions and later acquired, showing a track record of turning startup ideas into acquired products. Technically fluent in Kotlin, Go, Scala, Node.js and cloud-native tooling, he emphasizes functional patterns, testing, and scalable operational practices. Beyond leadership, he’s known for bringing rigorous engineering discipline to teams—introducing FRP-style data handling and modern complexity management where legacy codebases once ruled.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin CitiesBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Japanese, Korean, English
Github Skills (165)
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browserify10
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javascript10
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sqlite10
cordova10
webpack-plugin10
webpack-loader10
bundling10
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ionic9
git-status9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
elicast-research/elicast
Aug 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:65 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 10 months
yhpark/yhpark.github.io
Apr 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:27 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years
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