ウィリアム・アン·윌리엄 안·William An

William An

FROM THE STAGE TO THE STACK

Interpreter, event director, and brand marketer turned self-taught full-stack engineer & solopreneur.

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Act I

The Stage

A decade in front of audiences — three languages, global stages, luxury brands. Learning that a launch is only as good as the operation behind it.

PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics
2017–18
HR Operations Lead — staffing and coordinating a multinational Games operation.
Ryuichi Sakamoto Exhibition
Events
Local technical manager for the acclaimed composer's solo exhibition.
Porsche — Brand & PR
Brand
Public relations and trade for one of the world's most exacting marques.
Freelance Marketer & Event Director
2014–18
International events and campaigns, working across Korean, Japanese and English.
Act II

The Turn

Two proofs that the stage taught me to build — one behind a counter, one in a courtroom.

The restaurant. For four years I owned and ran a fried-chicken shop with my family, and turned it around to 2.5× monthly revenue. That kitchen became the seed of KitchenFlow — and the reason I trust software only after it survives a dinner rush.

Small Claims · Los Angeles Verdict Won 2026
I took Hertz to small-claims court on my own, in a second language — and won.
— Judgment for the plaintiff. The experience became the reason Lawnavi exists.

A foreigner facing a corporation shouldn't have to be their own lawyer. That gap is exactly what I set out to close.

Act III

The Stack

End-to-end engineer, high-end solopreneur — I design, build, ship and run the whole thing.

Lawnavi RAG · Legal

A living-law platform for foreigners in Japan — retrieval-augmented legal guidance built on a self-hosted LLM stack.

KitchenFlow Ops · Full-stack

Ordering, inventory and back-office for restaurants — born from running one myself.

Enterprise systems Java → TS / AWS

Membership & loyalty, ERP, InsurTech and LMS platforms — legacy modernization to serverless.

~/william — toolbox
~ $ languages → TypeScript · Python · SQL
~ $ frontend  → React · Astro · React Native
~ $ backend   → FastAPI · Node · AWS Lambda
~ $ infra     → Docker · Cloudflare · Postgres
~ $ ai        → local LLM · RAG · embeddings
~ $ langs    → 한국어 · 日本語 · English