Edward Yoon
Founder & Solo Operator
South Korea
Summary
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SeniorEdward Yoon is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 18 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, cloud platforms, and AI-driven products from Seoul, South Korea. As a long-standing Apache Software Foundation member and creator of Apache Hama and Horn, he blends deep expertise in bulk-synchronous parallel computing and large-scale deep learning frameworks with hands-on product delivery. He has led technical strategy and R&D across startups and enterprises—shaping recommendation, dynamic pricing, and real-time chat/voice AI systems—while serving as CTO and tech director roles. Currently he runs an AI-powered dialogue-based English tutor app and contributes to multiple Apache projects, reflecting a rare mix of open-source stewardship and founder-level execution. A mathematician at heart and a father, he often applies principled, research-rooted approaches to pragmatic engineering problems.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (75)
python10
hama10
testing10
speech10
bigtop10
big-data10
apache10
java10
data-augmentation10
horn9
akka9
neural-network9
deep-learning9
chat9
application-server9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
edwardyoon/heimdallr
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
Heimdallr, a Large-scale chat application server based on Redis Pubsub and Akka's actor model.
Contributions:90 commits, 24 PRs, 96 pushes in 5 months
actor-modelakkaapplication-serverpubsubredis
edwardyoon/edwardyoon.github.io
Oct 2018 - Jul 2026
Contributions:36 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 9 months
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