about

I hold a dual bachelor’s in Computer Science Engineering and Design from UNIST in South Korea, cum laude. Most engineers who care about design taught themselves the second half, and most designers who code taught themselves the first. I was trained in both at the same time, which is the whole reason I work the way I do.

What that turns into day to day is owning a feature end to end. At Burt Intelligence that means an Angular frontend, a Ruby on Rails API, and the analytics data layer underneath, for a platform enterprise media clients read real numbers off. Before that, a year at a US startup building a Next.js portal from zero and refactoring a legacy codebase into NestJS services. The handoff most teams lose time to just isn’t in my way.

I’ve also spent time on the research side, at UNIST’s Human-AI Interaction and Visualization Lab, classifying how language models fail at code and synthesising developer surveys into findings that were published. Same instinct as the rest of the work: understand the people using the thing before deciding what to build.

I pick up new tooling quickly, and I am deliberate about why. I bring agentic AI and new workflows into how I work because they buy time back, and the time is the point: less of it spent on the repetitive middle of a task, more of it spent on the product decisions that actually need a person. Efficiency for its own sake is just a different way to be busy.

I’m used to being the person from somewhere else: an international student in South Korea, remote with a startup in Washington, and now shipping from the Philippines with a team in Gothenburg on a 3 pm to midnight day so we overlap. Different norms, different communication styles, same job.

Off the clock I am almost certainly holding a coffee, shooting film, or somewhere on my own with both. Solo travel has given me one genuinely useless talent: I am very good at guessing whether the stranger I just handed my phone to is about to run off with it. Still undefeated.

Say hi anytime, at paraynogail@gmail.com or on LinkedIn. The full history is in the CV.