I am a son of lovely parents Dai & Mija, married to Hyeyeon, fathering an interesting daughter Seojin Stella. I am gifted with a great family.

I have lived in Korea and Panama which provided me with an interesting mix of background. I am currently living in United States of America, enjoying the sunny state of California.

Core Values & Principles

• Respect others
• Growth
• Faith

Me in Social Network

• linkedin.com/in/ysahn
• facebook.com/ysahn
• twitter.com/seednia
• github.com/ysahnpark

Experiences

Prior Works

• Korea: E&E, Iona, Nurisol
• Panama: Altenia / Alianzasoft
• United States: Wayfair, Person Learning, The Walt Disney Studio

Academic Experiences

• Obtained Masters degree in Software Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.
• Fellowship at Institute for Software Research.
• Researched at LearnLab, CMU
• Researched Dynamic Decision Making Lab, CMU
• Researched at Bio-informatics Lab, Seoul National University
• Obtained Bachelor degree in Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University

Experiences Beyond Computer Science

• Founded non-profit organization, Culturaplus: Organized art exhibitions, concerts, fund-rasing for other foundations, consulted other culture-preneurs
• Taught math, programming, and Christianity to children

Projects

• Altenia.com (sunset on 2015)
• Culturaplus (sunset on 2015)
• EmpoderemosMas, Twitter, YouTube
• CreaSoft.dev, Fundamenty

Other Concepts of my Interest

• Reduce, reuse, recycle: We owe to the planet and the future generation.
• Biomimicry: Billions of years of wisdom in the nature.
• Open source: Synergy of unrestricted knowledge.
• Startup & Entrepreneurship: High concentration of energy, passion and innovation

What Else?

I ...

• Write poems
• Traveled (at least 12 different countries)
• Painted (unfortunately when I went back to Panama, the painting was damaged by rain)
• Traded fine arts (Raul Vasquez Saez, Doris Dalila, and other Panamanian artists)
• Organized concerts
• Gave tour guides
• ProducedI videos

I enjoy

• playing with my child (amazing things that comes out of her mind)
• watching movies
• riding bike
• traveling
• reading news & articles
• brainstorming about ideas with people

I plan to

• visit more places around the world
• pilgrimage Way of St. James (Santiago de Compostela)
• continue learning