Wooyong (Ted) Heo
Head of Engineering / CTO-track · 20-yr Backend & Platform Leader
A 20+ year engineering leader and former Head of Commerce Development at Yanadoo (a kakao company, formerly Kakao Kids) from 2022.02 to 2026.07, leading a ~30-person organization (education & commerce). Drove 10M+ user services and platform builds at KT, CJ Hellovision, and SK Broadband — a platform architect across both on-prem (IDC) and AWS. I connect AI, platforms, and people to grow services and engineering productivity.
Highlights
Short list — see the Korean page for the full narrative.
- Leads a ~30-person engineering organization across product, mobile, backend, and operations.
- Believes great engineers write code people understand — code a teammate can still read six months later — which is what builds team velocity and service stability.
- Uses AI across coding, review, documentation, and repetitive work to maximize productivity, and has shipped multiple AI chatbot products in education and commerce.
- Large-scale TV / OTT backend integrations (search, recommendations, CMS, media pipelines) for 10M+ user services.