Daniel Juyung Seo

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States21 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 3,400 commits to 42 open source projects.
  • First Korean open source committer for EFL.
  • Led global partner engineering for YouTube Living Room.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineering Leader in the B2C Video Streaming industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipVideo Streaming

Other Skills

API DevelopmentCC#C++DevicesEFLESLEmbedded LinuxEmbedded SoftwareEmbedded SystemsGitLinuxOpen SourcePHPPeople Management

About

Daniel Juyung Seo is an enthusiastic software engineer since 1992. - He currently works for YouTube in Google as a Partner Engineering Manager in the San Francisco Bay Area. (YouTube headquarters) - He is an open source committer for Enlightenment / EFL (https://www.enlightenment.org) - He contributed more than 3,400 commits to 42 open source projects. <Partner Engineer at YouTube, Google> - Daniel leads Cobalt Partner Engineering for global partners. Cobalt(https://www.cobalt.dev) is an open source application run-time for YouTube in the Living Room industry(Smart TV, Blu-ray Disc Player, Game Consoles, Set-top box, IPTV, and etc.). It is a high-performance, small-footprint platform that implements a subset of HTML5/CSS/JS to run applications. Daniel maintains Cobalt open source and its public channels(mailing list, stack overflow, issue tracker, ...) - Daniel is responsible for top partner managements in the Living Room. With his effort, users can watch YouTube on the living room devices. <Computer Engineering> - He started writing code in 1992 with GW-Basic and since then he wrote various programs and participated in various projects. - He majored in Computer Engineering for bachelor degree and majored in Anonymous Network Security of Computer Engineering for master degree in Ajou university. <Open Source> - Daniel is crazy about open source and became the first Korean open source committer of EFL(Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, https://www.enlightenment.org) project in 2011. EFL is a collection of UI toolkit/framework libraries which was started in 2001 and is very optimized using less memory while having better performance. The libraries are used for native UI layer of Tizen(https://www.tizen.org) platform. - Daniel directly participated in shipping products such as Smart Phones, Smart TVs, Smart Watches, Smart Cameras, and etc. - Daniel did lots of public speeches about open source as an open source evangelist.

Experience

Google

4 roles

Senior Staff Partner Engineering Manager (글로벌 팀장), YouTube, Google

Promoted

May 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Role: Global Head of Partner Innovations & Engagement (PIE) at YouTube Device Ops & Partner Engineering (DOPE), Google
  • Responsibilities: overseeing
  • 1. Living Room Partner Engineering team
  • 2. Device Certification & Compliance Operations team
  • 3. Subscriptions Device Partner Engineering Team (NFL Sunday Ticket, YouTube TV, Primetime Channels)
  • 4. Voice Partner Engineering team
  • 5. mWeb (mobile web) and Automotive Partner Engineering team
LeadershipPeople ManagementDevicesVideo Streaming

Staff Partner Engineering Manager (글로벌 팀장, 수석부장/이사), Team Manager of Partner Engineering, YouTube

Promoted

Nov 2020May 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Nov 2020 - Present: Team Manager of Partner Innovations & Engagement, Device Ops & Partner Engineering, YouTube at Google
  • Global team manager of Top CE(Consumer Electronics), Platform Partner Engineering, Voice Partner Engineering at YouTube Living Room.
  • Starting in 2023, Device Experience Lead of NFL (National Football League) Sunday Ticket project.

Senior Partner Engineering Manager (부장), Team Manager of CE & Platform Partner Engineering, YouTube

Promoted

May 2018Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Oct 2019 - Oct 2020: Team Manager of CE & Platform Partner Engineering, YouTube
  • Team manager of CE(Consumer Electronics) & Platform Partner Engineering at YouTube Living Room.
  • Leads the global team of partner engineering for Top-CE Partners and Platform(Cobalt & Android TV).
  • Aug 2018 - Oct 2019: Team Manager of Partner Engineering, YouTube
  • Team manager for Partner Engineering at YouTube Living Room.
  • Led the global team of partner engineering for CE / Operator / Set-top boxes / Game Consoles / SoCs/ ODMs / etc partners.
  • May 2018 - Aug 2018: Senior Partner Engineer
  • Managed Top-CE partners.
  • Led Cobalt(http://www.cobalt.dev/) Partner Engineering. Cobalt is a high-performance, small-footprint platform that implements a subset of HTML5/CSS/JS to run applications, including the YouTube apps in the Living Room.

Partner Engineer (차장), YouTube

Mar 2015May 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Managed Top-CE partners.
  • Led Cobalt(http://www.cobalt.dev/) Partner Engineering. Cobalt is a high-performance, small-footprint platform that implements a subset of HTML5/CSS/JS to run applications, including the YouTube apps in the Living Room.

Samsung electronics

Senior Software Engineering Manager / 책임 연구원

Feb 2009Mar 2015 · 6 yrs 1 mo · Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

  • 2014 ~ 2015: Tech Lead at EFL UIFW team for Tizen 3.0 development.
  • 2013 ~ 2015: Engineering Manager at EFL UIFW team for Samsung Smart TV projects. The TV was first launched in 2015.
  • 2011 ~ 2013: Tech Lead at EFL UIFW team for Tizen based devices. Launched various products such as Smart Phones(Z Series), Smart TVs(Samsung Smart TV 2015), Smart Watches(Samsung Gear Series), Smart Camera(NX Series).
  • 2010: Software Engineer at EFL UIFW team in the SLP(Samsung Linux Platform) project. This project was renamed to Tizen later.
  • 2009: Software Engineer at UIFW team for proprietary RTOS based Mobile Platform. This framework was shipped in Samsung Gear Fit.

Ajou4u

Founder / Software Engineering Lead

Jan 2003Jan 2004 · 1 yr

  • Founder: Founded Ajou4U project, which is a community for Ajou university students.
  • Software Engineering Lead: Led software engineering team.

Nicei

Co-Founder / Software Engineering Lead

Jan 2001Jan 2003 · 2 yrs

  • Co-founder of the company as the sole software engineer.
  • Built the NiceI online shopping mall solution.
  • Software Engineering Lead: Led the software engineering team when the company grew. Sold more than 5,000 solutions to partner companies.

Kbn

Web Master

Jan 2000Dec 2000 · 11 mos

  • * Worked as a web master for the local broadcast company.

Education

Ajou University

Master — Network Security

Jan 2007Jan 2009

Ajou University

Bechelor — Information and Computer Engineering

Jan 1999Jan 2007

Stony Brook University

Bachelor — Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2006

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