Our Partners

• Name & Role

  

  Hyeyon Kwon

  CEO / Co-Founder

  Introduction

  Hyeyon is CEO and co-founder of Sentience and in charge of business development/overall business of Sentience.

  She has over five years of experience in data analysis, especially in behavior modeling and econometrics. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and System Engineering and a master’s degree in Management Engineering from KAIST. She worked as an IT consultant at KPMG and as a researcher, analyzing patient behaviors and forecasting clinical outcomes at Asan Medical Center.

• Name & Role

  

  Jin Kim

  CTO / Co-Founder

  Introduction

  Jin is the co-founder and CTO of Sentience. He supervises all the processes of designing the AI engine of Sentience, developing its algorithms, and turning it into services.
  
  He received his MBA and his Ph.D. in Management Engineering with a specialty in Economics of Information Systems from KAIST. He has more than 15 years of experience working as a full-stack programmer, IT consultant, and data analyst at NCSoft, NHN, and KT. After successfully selling a personal finance application, he started Sentience to help businesses make data-driven decisions more easily.

• Name & Role

  

  Hyemin Kwon

  Co-Founder / Technical Lead

  Introduction

  Hyemin is also one of the co-founders and responsible for the SDKs and AI modeling at Sentience.

  She graduated from Seoul National University with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, for which she wrote a thesis on 3D design and modeling. Before joining Sentience, she volunteered as a game coding instructor for Dao Project.

• Name & Role

  

  Soungbok Youn

  Analysis Engine Lead

  Introduction

  Soungbok is in charge of building the AI analysis engine of TENTUPLAY.

  She is a full-stack developer with extensive experience in web services and data analysis services. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University and worked at Dr. Kitchen and TmaxData, where she built web services, log analyzers, and monitoring software.

• Name & Role

  

  Hippolyte Maes

  Software Engineer

  Introduction

  Hippolyte is a software engineer. He graduated with a master's degree in software engineering in 2019.

  Since then, He's been working as a software engineer, building drones and tools for medical imagery focusing on AI and network optimization.

• Name & Role

  

  Shinho Ahn

  Data Engineer

  Introduction

  Shinho is a software developer and mainly works on data pipelining.

  He earned his bachelor’s degree in Science in Taxation from University of Seoul. He had worked as a co-founder of a startup company, in which he performed development on various topics such as web and SMTP as well as built up experience by cooperating on different fields including product design, marketing, etc.

• Name & Role

  

  Leo Juurinen

  Software Engineer

  Introduction

  Leo is a software engineer from Finland. He completed a Master’s degree from robotics and Bachelor’s degree from automation.

  In Finland Leo has worked for big Finnish industrial company and consultant company doing software test automation solutions for backend services and web services for 5 years. He has been building DevOps solutions with Jenkins for more than 3 years.

• Name & Role

  

  Seokjong Song

  Art Director

  Introduction

  Seok-Jong is in charge of artwork as a Sentience game development team manager.

  He has been working on graphics in various fields, including games, for more than 15 years. He worked as an art director in mobiles such as SNG, Racing, RPG, TPS, etc., and various PC games. In addition, he has been doing branding work such as CI, BI, Characters, etc. Also, Seok-Jong published several books as a picture book illustrator.

• Name & Role

  

  Jaekyun Lee

  Game Animator & Effector

  Introduction

  Jaekyun Lee is the Game Animator & Effector in the Sentience game development team.

  With more than 10 years of experience with animations and effects, Mr. Lee has developed various games such as casual sports, SNG, FPS, MORPG, mobile shooting, arcade, and various platform-based games. Mr. Lee looks forwad to developing a game that anyone could enjoy with his team at Sentience.

• Name & Role

  

  Ki Yoon Kim

  Game Designer

  Introduction

  Ki Yoon Kim is a Game Designer in the Sentience Game Development Team.

  Mr. Kim received a master's degree in Transmedia through game-themed HCI research, and worked as a researcher at KAIST's Interactive Computing Lab. Prior to joining Sentience, Mr. Kim served as a Product Manager in various industries such as mobile games, user research, Print-On-Demand commerce, and personal mobility. Mr. Kim is excited to design a groundbreaking game, creating something new and developing with a long-term view by joining Sentience.

• Name & Role

  

  Jungmin Lee

  Game UI Designer

  Introduction

  Game UI Designer Lee Jung-min is in charge of UI and UX in the Sentience Game Development Team.

  She graduated from the Department of Fine Art and has been working on overall graphic work including UI, illustration, spine, and 2D and 3D graphic resources in casual, realistic, and indie game projects.
  She is trying to create graphics where game players from all over the world can feel joy and empathy.

• Name & Role

  

  Insu Gim

  Research Scientist

  Introduction

  Insu is a research scientist in charge of creating data analysis models of TENTUPLAY.

  He received PhD and master's degree in Economics from the University of Seoul. His expertise lies in Macroeconomics, the Gaussian mixture model, and decision tree learning. Before joining Sentience, he worked as a researcher at the Gyeonggi Research Institute and as a consultant analyzing local business and economy at Hanseo Agrico, Inc.

• Name & Role

  

  Kwonwoo Lee

  Technical Writer

  Introduction

  Kwonwoo is a technical writer and responsible for technical documentation and document engineering of TentuPlay.

  He is specialized in information architecture, visual communication, and API documentation. He has over a decade experience as a technical writer and familiarity with various technical subject matters such as IT, Software Engineering, IP-based Telecommunication, Sonography, Radiology, and Biometrics.

• Name & Role

  

  Jooyoung Park

  Product Owner

  Introduction

  Jooyoung is a product owner and in charge of product strategy and planning of TENTUPLAY at SENTIENCE.

  He earned a bachelor's degree in Consumer Information Studies. He has about 10 years of working experience as a PM/PO at the various domains including commerce, reservation platform, fintech, etc. He has made products grow to an industry-leading level through product strategy, detailed planning, and data analysis.

• Name & Role

  

  Merdy

  Growth Project Manager

  Introduction

  Merdy is Growth Project Manager of Sentience and in charge of Product/Feature end-to-end development while also work closely with our partners to improve our products.

  He has over 4 years of experience in product management and data science especially turning data into personalized user interfaces and user flows. He has earned a bachelor's degree in Engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung (Indonesia). His previous experience were in Unicorn Southeast Company, GOJEK, as product and business development. Also, Procter and Gamble as Supply Chain Project Manager.

• Name & Role

  

  Eunji Heo

  Service Planner

  Introduction

  Eunji Heo, a Service Planner, is in charge of service planning for TentuPlay.

  She earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Seoul and built up experience in service planning by operating and planning various web/app services. After working as an intern at Sentience and growing into a logical planner, she officially joined. She is working on creating TentuPlay that allows easy and accurate data analysis and decision-making.

• Name & Role

  

  Sunhee Kim

  HR Manager

  Introduction

  Sunhee is in charge of Human Resources at Sentience.

  She has over 12 years of experience in general business management and global business management at Lotte and Prochips.