Youngjae Kim
Chief Product Officer at LINE Corp
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolYoungjae Kim is a technology and product leader with 12 years of hands-on software engineering and executive experience, currently serving as Chief Product Officer at Demae-can and Executive Fellow at LINE. He blends deep research roots from KAIST and multidisciplinary expertise in cognitive science, HCI, and e-learning with practical experience leading product turnarounds, legacy system overhauls, and AI-powered service development. As a former CTO, lead programmer, and serial co-founder, he moves fluidly between architecture, delivery, and organizational scaling while contributing patents and publications in haptics and mathematics. Fluent in Korean, English, and Japanese, he’s been recognized as a Microsoft Azure MVP and Regional Director—signals of his technical influence beyond his companies. Notably, his profile reflects a rare mix of academic rigor (PhD ABD) and commercial execution across startups, research institutions, and large consumer platforms.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD ABD, PhD ABD at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Korean, English, Japanese, German
Stackoverflow
24,660reputation
5.2mreached
298answers
153questions
gradle
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ubuntu
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azure
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maven
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android-activity
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dockerfile
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Github Skills (171)
user-feedback10
windows10
docker-desktop10
voc10
ubuntu10
asp-net10
specification10
upload-file10
docker-compose10
background-image10
notification10
versioning10
dll10
console10
persistent10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
YoungjaeKim/react-kpi-tree
Jul 2021 - Jul 2025
KPI(Key Performance Index) management dashboard in order to track required business achievements.
Contributions:2 PRs, 123 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
vapps/Modern_LiveBoard
Jul 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:75 commits in 9 months
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