Taegon Kim

Taegon Kim is a seasoned professional in frontend engineering, currently serving as a Staff Frontend Engineer at Coupang since September 2025. Prior to this role, Taegon held the position of Software Team Lead at Dable from December 2022 to September 2025, and was a Senior Frontend Developer at Automattic from June 2016 to November 2022. Taegon's career began as a Frontend Developer at Fancy.com, where contributions were made to a social e-commerce platform, and earlier experience includes a role as a Frontend Engineer at NHN, where key projects included the creation of the Jindo JavaScript Framework and development work on Naver's suite of services. Taegon started in web development from November 2002 to January 2005, focusing on PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript. Educational achievements include a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Seoul, completed in 2006.