Jonghyeon Ham

Jonghyeon Ham

Technical Founder/CEO · Seoul, South Korea

jh.ham@refresh.cv

Technical Founder & CEO at refresh.cv | AI-Powered Modern Resumes with Mock Applications

Work Experience

refresh.cv

Daejeon, South Korea

Founder & CEO

Sep 2024 - now

  • refresh.cv

    • Drove zero-to-one across product, architecture, full-stack engineering, UX design, data analytics, and GTM/sales

    • Shipped resume editor with agent-based resume authoring, revision, and feedback

    • Launched resume scoring and feedback based job description

    • Delivered resume web templates and resume card components

Viva Republica (Toss Core)

Gangnam, South Korea

Server Developer

Feb 2023 - Sep 2024

  • Toss Ads

    • Built and operated ad platform used in 15M+ MAU Toss app for campaign execution, review, and performance

    • Implemented ad performance ingestion/aggregation (impressions, clicks, plays) with Kafka, Druid, Impala

    • Implemented real-time CPM/CPC billing; ensured data integrity at scale with local cache + flush pattern

    • Contributed to settlements, agency commission payouts, and tax invoice issuance

    • Shipped ad account/group systems and integrated with Toss Business

  • Display Ads product (monthly 10B+ KRW scale)

    • Contributed to eCPM-based ad recommendation and ranking improvements, driving >1B KRW monthly uplift

    • Implemented multiple optimization strategies to minimize ad refresh and serving latency, improving both UX and fill rate.

    • Implemented CPC (cost-per-click) and CPM (cost-per-mille) billing logic end-to-end for our ad serving pipeline.

    • Built real-time dashboards and alerting to monitor impressions, clicks, and spend in production, catching ad-serving incidents before they impact revenue

  • Live Shopping

  • Credit Score Board

    • Built product aligned to financial context and user comprehension

  • Benefits Tab (8M+ DAU)

    • Shipped Lucky Quiz, Lucky Lottery, Money Alerts, and Weekly Missions

    • Owned product development and operations from advertiser and user perspectives

Transverse

Pangyo, South Korea

Co-Founder, Lead Software Engineer

Dec 2020 - Feb 2023

founding team; leading product roadmap and led a 10-engineer team

  • Evoclass: real-time video conference platform

    • Implemented WebRTC SFU with Mediasoup and high-performance socket servers using uWebSockets

    • Built server orchestrator and demand forecasting to reduce streaming cost and ensure efficiency

    • Created container-based load testing to guarantee real-time video/audio QoS and performance

    • Delivered real-time STT and translation via browser-native APIs

    • Built AI-powered video effects: background blur, virtual background, face morphing

  • Learning Management System

    • Designed and implemented system architecture

    • Integrated with the video platform to enable AI-driven learning features

Education

KAIST

Daejeon, South Korea

Computer Science

Feb 2020 - now

  • Admitted via special talent track

  • Developer, SPARCS student open-source club (sparcs.org)

  • GPA: 3.87/4.3

Korea Digital Media High School

Ansan, South Korea

Web Programming

Feb 2017 - Jan 2020

  • Admitted via contest winner track (KOI)

  • Graduated 1st in IT Literacy Certification Program

Awards

AI Online Competition

Seoul, South Korea

  • Selected for commercialization funding (KRW 160M = $120K)

Jul 2020

OpenResource Hackathon Seoul

Seoul, South Korea

Nov 2019

Talent Award of Korea

South Korea

  • High School Division

Oct 2018

Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)

International

Korea Youth Science Creativity Challenge (ISEF-K)

South Korea

  • 1st place

Jan 2018

Korea Olympiad in Informatics (KOI)

South Korea

  • Gold

Oct 2017

Open Source

Baseweb

Uber

May 2021 - May 2021

neis-counter

South Korea

  • Product Owner & Maintainer

  • Open-source service

  • GitHub

  • Served 500k users in the last 12 months; used by ~1 in 10 Korean high school students

Oct 2018 - now

NeuralAction

South Korea

  • Product Owner & Maintainer

  • Service

  • GitHub

  • A Real-time and Accurate Gaze Tracking Application for a More Natural Human-Computer Interaction with User Interface

Jul 2017 - now

Projects

FastCampus

Gangnam, South Korea

Lecturer & Mentor

Dec 2022 - now

Hanwha Techwin

Pangyo, South Korea

Frontend Developer (Freelance)

  • Built back-office admin web dashboard for Mopl, an apartment management solution using Remix

  • Improved code quality and stability via functional programming (e.g., currying) and robust TypeScript generics

  • Implemented scalable, fast rendering using TanStack Headless UI

Naver Boostcamp

Seongnam, South Korea

Code Reviewer

Aug 2022 - Oct 2022

  • Frontend code reviewer for the 7th cohort

  • Full-stack code reviewer for the 10th cohort

Certifications

Information Processing Technician

South Korea

Human Resources Development Service of Korea (HRDK)

Apr 2019

Publications

Write-up summarizing troubleshooting while building and operating the “Live Shopping” product in the Toss Benefits tab.

Published in the Proceedings of HCIK 2021

Hosted by the HCI Society of Korea

Contacts

Email

jh.ham@refresh.cv

LinkedIn

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GitHub

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Instagram

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