
Jonghyeon Ham
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
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
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
Optimized performance with tens of thousands of peak RPS without degrading UX using Local Cache, Redis and Kafka optimizations
Authored article on handling large-scale traffic without adding servers
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
1st place
Nov 2019
Talent Award of Korea
South Korea
High School Division
Oct 2018
Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)
International
Finalist of South Korea
Robotics & Intelligent Machines Grand Award, 4th place
Apr 2018
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
Fixed an error in the official documentation
May 2021 - May 2021
neis-counter
South Korea
Product Owner & Maintainer
Served 500k users in the last 12 months; used by ~1 in 10 Korean high school students
Oct 2018 - now
Projects
FastCampus
Gangnam, South Korea
Lecturer & Mentor
Dec 2022 - now
Kernel360 cohorts 1-3: Frontend mentor
InnerCircle cohorts 2–3: Frontend mentor
InnerCircle cohort 4: Backend mentor
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