Short story — I build stuff so people smile:
Korean Writing Assistant
As a language student I am an expert at Grammatical Error Creation: as a developer I'm more interested in ML based techniques for Grammatical Error Correction (GEC). There's great apps for English, but in Korean, commercial services leave a lot of be desired.
문법.com brings the latest models from paper-to-production. Through a browser extension, users can check spelling & grammar anywhere. Try it online or install the chrome extension.
Cybersecurity training academy.
In-between studies, I moonlight as the full-stack developer for XINTRA. Working with the cybersecurity-expert founders has given me experience integrating with a wide variety of enterprise services (Azure, SAML, Entra, AWS, Cloudflare) and more stronger than usual security focus (2+ external pen-tests last year).
Korean typing tutor
I built this game because I needed it, but the reception from students motivates me until today. Plus, there were interesting frontend challenges rendering partial Korean characters (blog).
I was the 1st engineering hire at Relume, an $80M Sydney startup. Relume helps it's users build websites quicker with AI. It looks something like this:
Personal Highlights:
As a Senior Fronted Engineer / Coach at Canva, I did a few things. On Docs to Decks, I lead a team of 6 to ship an AI preseason creation feature. We worked with Mel (CEO) to get it delivered so it could be released on staged, at the annual public Canva Create event.
While at Canva, we developed and patented novel AI design methods for “Styles” feature. I worked full-stack; from UI, to AI Evals (MTurk & internal vendors), to data monitoring (SQL, Snowflake, DBT).
For now, that's some of the work I am most proud of.
Still interested? You can connect with me or read more on my blog.
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