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About me

Ji (지) is wisdom, which comes from curiosity. Yae (예) is art, which comes from intention.

I studied business administration and French at Korea University, because I wanted to understand both systems and people, and spent a semester in Reims learning to live outside my comfort zone. Then I spent five years as a product manager at KFTC, Korea's national payments and clearing institute, working between engineers, banks, regulators and users on biometric authentication and digital identity.

That is where I learned that APIs and compliance requirements are more than technical details. They decide whether people can move through systems with trust. In 2024 I moved to Seattle for a master's at the University of Washington, and now I am deep into AI, to understand what it actually changes about how we live, decide and trust.