1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?
He is a Seoul-based field applications and pre-sales leader with 25+ years of experience and 15+ years in customer-facing roles. He began as a firmware and ASIC engineer at XXXX and XXXX, then spent about 7 years at XXXX, first as a field application engineer and then as a senior software engineer. There he sold and supported security IP and protocol stacks (IPsec, TLS), including a VPN deployment for XXXX and XXXX. At XXXX (2016–2025) he was Director of Field Applications Engineering, supporting security IP such as Root-of-Trust/HSM, MACsec, IPsec/TLS and crypto IP for chip manufacturers. Since August 2025 he has been APAC Regional Director of Field Applications Engineering at XXXX, an AI chip maker. He covers APAC and ASEAN, with pre-sales, post-sales support and onboarding sessions, and works closely with sales, go-to-market and engineering.
2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?
He is strongest in customer-facing technical selling: onboarding, training and pitching technical security solutions to new customers. His security knowledge runs from hardware through to software and application layers. He can find the root cause of fundamental issues quickly. He says he works easily with headquarters in Europe, including Helsinki and the Netherlands, from years of travel across Europe, Asia and the US. His technical base is C/C++, Python and Bash.
