Language, systems,
and the tools
that connect them.

I'm Areum Seo — a localization professional, linguist, and builder working across Korean, Japanese, and English. I came to Tokyo on a MEXT scholarship, took a master's in applied linguistics at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and taught Japanese at Waseda and Korean at JCFL before moving into industry. Teaching is where I learned to explain a system to someone who has never seen it — which turns out to be most of what I still do.

Since then my work has spanned localization QA, translation, project management, and language operations, across linguistics, gaming, technical documentation, marketing, and entertainment — including a stretch at Amazon Japan, where I received a Customer Obsession Award. Most recently I stood in the experience zone at Snowflake World Tour Seoul demoing CoWork to visitors: same instinct as the classroom, shorter attention span.

Lately I've been building: Python, SQL, Streamlit, Snowflake, GitHub, and a handful of iOS apps. I hold a SnowPro Associate certification and keep picking up credentials in data engineering and generative AI along the way. I don't call myself a developer yet — but I ship things, and I keep going.