Story

Back in middle school, I used to make video games on Adobe Flash and Unity or draw out products I wanted to make with pen and paper. I wanted to continue building, so I double majored in computer science and economics at UC Berkeley.

There I met people I would end up building with for years. We built side projects, led student orgs, and founded the Korean Business Organization (KBO), a network connecting entrepreneurs in Korea and the United States.

Then I went to serve at the Korean military, where I started my first company. I wrote code and designs with pen and paper during the breaks, and I typed them over at night on base computers that crashed if I opened 3 Chrome tabs, an exact number I learned through one too many shutdowns. At 5PM, when we got our phones back for the day, I would call my co-founder who was stationed at a different base. That eventually became ocena, a SaaS that automated sales operations. After the military, I ran ocena alongside schoolwork. It's still up today, just without updates.

After graduating, I stayed in San Francisco and co-founded Plato, an AI agent that revived dormant sales deals. Then, mid-sprint, came a bad case of vertigo. It wasn’t the first time my body had stopped me. Before the military, a ruptured disc had kept me from walking normally for a month. Both times, I hadn’t noticed the warnings.

And that problem got me into building Baseline and Oneum.

I moved back to Korea to build both.

Previously in Software Engineering, Technical Project Manager, Marketing, Private Equity, M&A.