# Junyoung Park

> Junyoung Park is an AI engineer and co-founder of Weavel, the company now known as Typa. He studied computer science and engineering at Seoul National University, contributed to the open-source Promptmodel and Ape projects, and co-authored visual-language research published in Findings of EMNLP 2024. Weavel participated in Y Combinator’s Summer 2024 batch. Current public profiles point to Nari Labs; YC lists him among Typa’s former founders.

- **Role:** AI engineer and startup co-founder
- **Organizations:** Weavel (now Typa; former co-founder), Nari Labs (listed on current LinkedIn; title unverified)
- **Education:** Computer science and engineering studies; degree completion unverified, Seoul National University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Weavel, now Typa, a YC S24 company., Built more than ten LLM applications with Andrew Chung, according to the Weavel launch., Contributed code to the open-source Promptmodel and Ape repositories as engineerA314.

## Career timeline

- **2018–2024** — Studied computer science and engineering at Seoul National University.
- **2023** — Co-authored Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning of InstructBLIP for Visual Reasoning Tasks, presented at the NeurIPS ENLSP workshop.
- **2024** — Weavel participated in Y Combinator’s Summer 2024 batch and launched Ape.
- **2024** — Co-authored Towards Efficient Visual-Language Alignment of the Q-Former for Visual Reasoning Tasks in Findings of EMNLP.
- **2026 (observed October)** — LinkedIn lists Nari Labs; GitHub links to narilabs.com. YC places him among Typa’s former founders.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Weavel, now Typa, a YC S24 company.
- Built more than ten LLM applications with Andrew Chung, according to the Weavel launch.
- Contributed code to the open-source Promptmodel and Ape repositories as engineerA314.
- Co-authored the 2024 EMNLP Findings paper on efficient Q-Former adaptation.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Research snapshot: LinkedIn lists Nari Labs and GitHub links to its website; exact title and joining date are unverified. YC currently lists Park among former founders of Typa.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jun-park314/
- GitHub: https://github.com/engineerA314

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Last updated: 2026-10-16