RESUME

Byoungwook Kim

Creator of AutoRAG (★4.9K), an open-source RAG auto-optimization framework. Interested in RAG, AI agents, AI safety, and other AI open-source projects. Love traveling the world as a digital nomad.

Software Engineer · Runbear 2025 — Present Building AI teammates that live where teams work — Slack, Teams, and Discord. Connect your tools and knowledge, and an AI teammate answers, acts, and automates.
Instructor · Fast Campus — Korean DeepLearning.AI 2024.10 — 2025.03 Taught the online course "Evaluation & Optimization of RAG Systems" — how to measure and systematically improve RAG pipelines.
Co-Founder · AutoRAG Inc. 2025 Founded a startup to commercialize AutoRAG, the open-source project loved by engineers worldwide. Later pivoted from the founder role to pursue a dedicated technical path in software engineering and open source.
AI Engineer · Markr.AI 2023.06 — 2024.09 Co-led open-source projects. Designed AutoRAG's modular framework (★4.9K), engineered hybrid retrieval and parallel inference, researched chunking and LLM-as-a-Judge, ran a 500+ member Discord community, and shipped Kice-Slayer (★530) and RAGChain (★282).
Co-Founder · EDAI Inc. 2022.09 — 2023.05 Built an in-game PPL (product placement) solution as a Unity SDK. Interviewed 60 companies in 2 days, closed contracts with a metaverse company and an ad company, and filed a patent for 3D virtual-space exposure measurement.
1st Prize — 2025 SK AI SUMMIT Claude Code Builder Hackathon (Anthropic · SKT · Coxwave) Awards
1st Prize — 2024 Open-Source Developer Competition (Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea) Awards
Uber AI Online Seminar Invited Talks
AWS Gen AI Loft Seoul 2024 Invited Talks
GDG DevFest Seoul 2024 Invited Talks
Kim. D., Kim. B., et al. (2024). AutoRAG: Automated Framework for Optimization of RAG Pipeline — cited by 29 Publication
PythonRAGLLM EvaluationPrompt EngineeringAI Safety / AlignmentLlamaIndexLangChainPyTorchEmbedding / RerankerVector DBOpen SourceTechnical WritingUnity

B.S. in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (expected Aug 2026)