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Role

Chief Technology Officer

Learn Korean in Korean · Sep 2022 — May 2024 · Seoul, South Korea

Built an AI conversational tutor, rebuilt the infrastructure on AWS, and hired and led a team of three.

Learn Korean in Korean

What I did

  • Built an AI conversational tutor that gave learners real-time feedback on their Korean, taking it from concept to production.
  • Maintained the Korean course-related applications, including the lesson management used by teachers and the user-facing system.
  • Owned all applications end-to-end, including frontend, backend, database modeling, and infrastructure architecture.
  • Rebuilt the infrastructure from a single server into a resilient, autoscaling AWS architecture, removing single points of failure.
  • Replaced manual server deploys with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and AWS CodeDeploy, providing better service availability and developer experience.
  • Implemented observability across all systems, including logging, alerting, monitoring, and analytics.
  • Hired and led an engineering team of three, establishing onboarding, sprint planning, code review, and performance tracking.
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