Hobum Kwon is a seasoned software executive and Corporate Vice President leading the Platform Team at Samsung Research, with over 20 years building platforms, SDKs, runtimes, APIs, web, .NET, Flutter, IoT and on-device AI services. He has driven the Linux-based Tizen platform to deployment on hundreds of millions of consumer devices—over 330–400 million across TVs, wearables, CE, IoT and robots—balancing deep technical architecture with product-scale delivery. A former principal engineer and NYU Tandon MS in Computer Science, he combines hands-on systems design with executive leadership to shepherd long-lived platform investments. Notably, his career spans both early web commerce systems in New York and decades of embedded and consumer OS work in South Korea, signaling a rare blend of internet-era service engineering and device-level platform mastery.
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