Hello, I’m Gangrok, helping organizations with AX and teaching AI.
I’m an engineer who has been writing code for over 20 years. I have worked as a developer, tech lead, and CTO, and now I contribute to organizational growth by solving real-world problems through AX consulting for companies and as a growth mentor for several startups.
The Path I’ve Taken While Building
I started my career as a Cyworld developer at SK Communications. I later co-founded a game studio, where I designed and operated infrastructure capable of handling requests from 300 million users worldwide. At Kakao Games, SK Telecom, and SK Planet, I built services used daily by millions of users.
Now, I lead the AI consulting firm Hyperpipe, helping various organizations embrace AI not as a special tool but as a way of working. At dcamp (dcamp), the largest startup growth partner in Korea, I support the growth of early-stage startups as a growth mentor.
Time Spent Researching Artificial Intelligence
A few years ago, I became a student again and completed a master’s degree in artificial intelligence at Yonsei University. While researching large language model–based search and recommendation systems and anomaly detection models, I encountered questions that could not be explained by the intuition I had relied on for years in the field.
There were moments when 20 years of experience became powerless, unable to answer the question, "Why does this work this way?"
But when research intertwined with my professional experience, I began to see what had been invisible before. In the field, I was someone accustomed to solving problems quickly. Research taught me to place one more question before that — is this really a problem that needs to be solved, and what should we call a good solution? It was a time when I came to look at defining problems and choosing solutions again through an academic approach.
The time I spent studying while grappling with that question became the foundation for carrying out organizational AX and teaching AI.
Biography
Current: CEO of Hyperpipe (AI/AX consulting and AI education) · Growth Mentor at dcamp
Experience: CTO at Tumblbug · Kakao Games · SK Telecom · SK Planet · Co-founder of a game studio · SK Communications (Cyworld)
Education: Graduated from the Master's Program in Artificial Intelligence at Yonsei University Graduate School of Engineering (Master of Engineering)
Lectures: LG Electronics DX School Deep Learning Course, 400 sessions (Participant rating: 4.5 / 5.0)
BooksAuthored
『Popular Deep Learning』 (Recommend Publishing, scheduled for publication in 2026-12)
“Join a Company That Helps Engineers Grow” (Fast Campus, 2022)
Activities
Modu Labs Aiffelthon Data Analysis Project Judge
Practical Machine Learning and Text Mining Course
Numerous corporate AX training sessions and workshops
Project-Based Education Design
NCS Certified Instructor (Artificial Intelligence)