01 — Origin Story
The journey so far
I was born in Karaganda, Kazakhstan — ethnically Korean, part of the Koryo-saram community that's called Central Asia home for generations. I grew up speaking Russian at home, picked up Kazakh at school, and spent my school years chasing fluency in English — which eventually took me a long way from home. Along the way I picked up a chaotic mix of hobbies: basketball, video games, skateboarding, football, drums (badly), and K-pop dance. Here's the save file, stop by stop.
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Karaganda
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Childhood
🕌
Abu Dhabi
UAE
UAE
2021 – 2025
❄️
Moscow
Russia
Russia
Jul – Nov 2025
🇧🇪
Belgium
Dec 2025 – Now
★ YOU ARE HERE
SPAWN POINT
Childhood
🏚️ Karaganda, Kazakhstan
- Born and raised in Karaganda — ethnically Korean (Koryo-saram), a diaspora community with deep roots across Kazakhstan and Central Asia.
- Grew up speaking Russian as a first language, and learned Kazakh through school.
- Started building English fluency in school — the skill that would later take me across three continents.
- Picked up the hobbies that stuck for life: basketball, video games, skateboarding, football, drums (still bad at it), and K-pop dance.
THE ACADEMY
2021 – 2025
🕌 Abu Dhabi, UAE — NYU Abu Dhabi
- BSc in Computer Science, graduated May 2025 with a 3.8 GPA.
- Research roles across three labs: microprocessor architecture (ResNet-18, adversarial ML), multimodal/vision-language models (IROS 2024 paper), and embodied AI for assistive tech (ECCV 2024 workshop paper).
- QA Engineering intern at Mundfish, playtesting and regression-testing a live game project.
- 2nd place at NYUAD's Slush'd AI Hackathon, out of 100+ international teams.
- NYU Founders Day Award — top 20% of the graduating class.
SIDE QUEST
Jul – Nov 2025
❄️ Moscow, Russia — Yandex
- Backend Engineering Intern, building automation with LangChain.
- Shipped an end-to-end pipeline covering 70% of previously manual workflows.
- Improved an LLM-as-a-Judge validation framework, +25% task-validation accuracy.
CURRENT ARC
Dec 2025 – Present
🇧🇪 Belgium — Odoo
- Software Developer at Odoo, Louvain-la-Neuve.
- Migrating legacy Odoo databases to the latest Enterprise framework — 100% data integrity across complex schemas.
- Upgrading business logic for Sales and Resource modules; modernizing XML/frontend components.
- ★ Save point active. Story continues below.
◆ CHARACTER SHEET
Origin: Karaganda, Kazakhstan
Ethnicity: Korean (Koryo-saram)
Class: Software Developer
Current location: Brussels, Belgium
Guild: Odoo
◆ LANGUAGE SKILL TREE
RussianNative
EnglishMastered
KazakhLearned
◆ HOBBY INVENTORY
Basketball
Point guard energy
Video Games
See Gamer Card ↓
Skateboarding
Ollie: learned
Football
Left foot: decorative
Drums
Equipped. Still bad.
K-pop Dance
Choreo: memorized