Summary
Younghwan Yong is a seasoned Chief Technology Officer based in Seoul with over a decade of experience building production-grade web, cloud, and data systems. He brings hands-on expertise in PHP, Java, Python, database design and Linux/UNIX administration, and has repeatedly led engineering organizations across e-commerce, media, cloud, and AI-focused companies. His career includes senior technical roles at NAVER early on—where he designed high-performance mail and news data transfer systems—and multiple CTO appointments at startups and established firms, demonstrating both product-minded leadership and low-level systems craftsmanship. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, he has a track record of architecting scalable transfer and control systems for high-throughput environments. Notably, his background spans journalism to principal scientist roles, giving him a rare combination of storytelling, research-driven thinking, and practical engineering leadership.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Korean