Work

Jihwan Ryu

AI Agent Engineering · Backend & Infrastructure

I build agents whose decisions and actions can be traced and verified.

February 21, 2026 to present

GEODE

Autonomous Agent Harness

From observation to the next action.

See the work: GEODE

October 31, 2025 to February 10, 2026

Eco²

Backend · Cloud infrastructure

Recycling guidance from one photo and a conversation.

See the work: Eco²

September 28, 2026 to October 4, 2026 · Completed

Railshot

AI deployment & operations platform

Deploy a locally built web app to prepared cloud and on-premises environments, then run it.

See the work: Railshot

March 2026 to April 2026

REODE

Code migration

Before fixing, find the common cause.

See the work: REODE

April 2026 to May 2026

Kiki

Work signals and agent execution

So that a proposal becomes the assignee's execution.

See the work: Kiki

May 6, 2026 to May 26, 2026

Cotton

Translation workflow

Turning generated translations into reviewable results.

See the work: Cotton

CRUMB

Generative Game Studio · Demo

From a one-line game pitch to a playable draft, with the agents’ work in view and open to intervention.

See the work: CRUMB

Jihwan Ryu

AI Agent Engineering · Backend & Infrastructure

I design and build agent execution boundaries, backends and cloud infrastructure, and study the conditions under which a model's judgment carries through to real execution and verification.

What should be left to the model, and what should the system check? I design agent permissions and completion judgments, recovery for asynchronous work, and the path that takes verified code to deployment. I read execution records, isolate failures, and use them to scope the next experiment and implementation.

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Professional Experience

  1. 2026.10.16

    LILT

    AI Benchmark Engineer · freelance

    Remote · $55/hr

    • Korean tasks for Terminal-Bench-LILT
    • Task environments built on Korean data
    • Reference solutions · deterministic verifiers
    • Difficulty calibrated on model runs

    Terminal-Bench-LILT · arXiv 2608.28641

  2. 2026.03.16 — 2026.05.26

    pinxlab

    AI Research Engineer · AI R&D freelance

    On-site · 3,000,000₩

    • Kiki · work signals · approval · execution recovery
    • REODE · Java/Spring migration
    • Cotton · translation judgment · review flow
  3. 2024.12.09 — 2025.08.31

    Rakuten Symphony Korea

    Cloud Engineer (L5) · Cloud BU · full-time

    Hybrid · 45,000,000₩ / 1yr + up to 10%

    • Storage admin account lifecycle · authentication state
    • Traced the kernel lock behind serialized reads
    • Changed it to allow concurrent reads

Education

  1. 2024.07.01 — 2024.11.18

    Kakao Tech Bootcamp

    Software development training

  2. 2017.03.02 — 2023.08.25

    Pusan National University

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, major in Information and Computer Engineering · Bachelor of Engineering

AwardCertification

  1. 2025.12.02

    Saessak Hackathon 2025 · Excellence Award

    Eco² · 4th of 181 teams

  2. 2024.12

    Engineer Information Processing

  3. OPIc

    ACTFL · English

    • IH 2024.09.15 — 2026.09.14
    • IM3 2026.09.21 — present

Mail

jihwan.ryu@mangowhois.ai