Summary
Youngjae 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.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Gachon University