Jieun Chon
GTM at OpenAI
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolJieun Chon is a GTM-focused software leader with 11 years of experience turning advanced AI and large-scale data systems into measurable business impact. She combines hands-on engineering from roles at Google and Palantir with data engineering and personalization expertise developed at Tappytoon and startups, shipping pipelines, recommendations, and real-time analytics. Comfortable operating at the intersection of strategy and execution, she has led client-facing, high-stakes projects, migrated critical databases with zero downtime, and mentored non-CS colleagues to adopt data-driven practices. Now at OpenAI in Seoul, she aligns product, go-to-market, and technical teams to operationalize AI solutions. Beyond engineering, she’s a natural teacher and connector—having run large CS courses, GitHub workshops, and client trainings—which helps her translate complex systems for diverse stakeholders. She’s also an avid coder who balances technical rigor with a love of basketball and people.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Virginia Tech
English, Korean
Stackoverflow
139reputation
12kreached
8answers
17questions
Github Skills (16)
java10
nested6
quicksort6
cs506
buffered-writer6
bitmap6
buffer6
android6
loops6
computer-architecture4
computer-engineering4
kernel3
operating-system2
computer-science2
email-signature1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
VirginiaTech/GitWorkshops
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 16 days
g471000/java-study-treeeyes
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:404 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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