Sangwoo Moon

Research Engineer at TwelveLabs

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Research engineer with 10+ years of experience spanning applied ML research and large-scale ML systems. Proven track record of taking research-grade models to production, including training and serving multi-modal foundation models at scale. Strong background in optimization, reinforcement learning, and systems, with hands-on ownership of distributed training, inference infrastructure, and evaluation pipelines.

Experience

  • TwelveLabs (4 yrs 3 mos)
    • Research Engineer
      Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    • Lead Machine Learning Engineer
      Sep 2023 - Aug 2025 · 2 yrs

    • Machine Learning Engineer
      May 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Machine Learning Engineer at Kakao Corp
    Sep 2021 - May 2022 · 9 mos

  • Ph.D Candidate at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Mar 2013 - Sep 2021 · 8 yrs 7 mos

  • Software Developer at NEXON KOREA
    Nov 2015 - Feb 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

    - Developed a service to automatically crawl webpages mentioning specific keywords. - Incorporated natural language processing (NLP) for sentiment analysis and automatic summary of collected texts. - Utilized docker and kubernetes to provide a scalable and easily deployable pipeline of frond end and back end services, and seamlessly managing desired services in a pool of AWS computing machines.