Brian Shin

Brian Shin — Founder of Silver Flight Group and Dubcap, co-host of Unlocalized

I'm Brian Shin (Brian ByungHyun Shin, Korean: 신병현), founder of Silver Flight Group. I'm building Dubcap — an AI-powered tool that turns podcasts, webinars, and long-form video into short-form clips for social media.

I also co-host Unlocalized with Jay Lee: business stories from the other side, about the founders and companies in Korea that English-language media overlooks. We make long-form episodes and short-form videos from Seoul. More about the show here.

Now

  • Silver Flight Group — founder. Tools for creators who want to reach global audiences. The flagship product is Dubcap; earlier products include CalorieCoach and YouTube Translate.
  • Unlocalized — co-host and producer. 20+ long-form episodes since April 2026, plus short-form on Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and TikTok. I also build the show's livestream overlays and production tooling.
  • Logistics Tech Review — a newsletter on technology and automation in logistics and supply chain.

Before

  • Waymo — product manager, simulation and evaluation for self-driving cars. I worked on simulation agents: making AI traffic agents behave realistically so driving behavior could be validated before public-road testing.
  • LG Electronics, Silicon Valley — software engineer, then product manager. I launched the open-source SVL Simulator (50,000+ downloads, the default simulator for the Autoware stack), started LG's webOS Robotics initiative, and represented LG as a founding member of the ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee (2018–2020) and on the Autoware Foundation TSC.
  • Education — M.S. in EECS (robotics and embedded systems), UC Berkeley. B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Harvard.

Talks and appearances

  • Unlocalized, episode 12 — Jay interviews me on going from LG and Waymo to founding an AI startup (2026).
  • ROSCon 2019, Macau — "ROS on OpenEmbedded: Simpler robotics development for embedded Linux" (video).
  • ROSCon 2018, Madrid — lightning talk, "ROS2 on webOS: Web-app enabled robots" (video).
  • AI Robotics KR, Seoul (2019) and the Silicon Valley Autoware Meetup (2019) — talks on webOS Robotics and SVL Simulator sensor rendering.
  • CES 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 — exhibiting LG's automotive and simulation work; SVL Simulator featured in Unity's Unite 2019 keynote.
  • Publications on Google Scholar.

You can read the longer version of my story here, and see what I've built on the projects page.

In my spare time, I love to play tennis and golf. You can find my Youtube channel here.

Get in touch! Find me on LinkedIn, Twitter, and GitHub, or send an email: brian [at] silverflightgroup.com


Last updated: September 2026.