M.S. in Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2023.08 - Present)
B.Eng in Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea (2015.03 - 2022.02)
Highest Honor (Valedictorian) from the College of Informatics
Kyunggi High School, Seoul, South Korea (2012.03 - 2015.02)
Professional Experience
Server Dev. Team Leader, VCNC, South Korea (2018.07 - 2023.06)
Developed large-scale online-to-offline server systems that require scalability, robustness, and high performance
Executed DevOps duties for TADA (ride-hailing platform), CASTING (used-car sales platform) - monitored systems with Prometheus, controlled deployment cycles with Jenkins, fixed runtime errors
Implemented core features for TADA, CASTING server systems with Kotlin, Spring-Boot, JPA, gRPC, Protobuf, Mysql and deployed in AWS using Docker, Kubernetes
Directed server engineering team (9 members) - mentored engineers on software design and development, service operation
Improved work cultures/processes - re-formatted team meetings, introduced code review meeting and tech time, updated tutorial process for newcomers
Supervised software engineer hiring process - reviewed resumes, led phone interviews and technical interviews
Maintained ETL data pipelines with Spark EMR
Client Programming Intern, Bluehole Game Studio, South Korea (2017.06 - 2017.08)
Client Programming Intern at TERA Headquarters
Experienced the whole game client development cycle (plan, design, implement, test) with own game client project using cocos2d, c++, sqlite3
Computational Assistant, Research Institute for Korean Study, South Korea (2016.08 - 2017.07)
Maintained all research servers and institute websites
Developed software tools (Corpus analysis admin website, Chinese character encoder)
Provided technical and communicational support for the external development team in the RIKS homepage renewal
Honors & Scholarships
Highest Honor Award (Graduation Highest Honor), Korea University 2022
National Science and Engineering Scholarship 2017-2022
Dean’s List, Korea University 2016
Korea University Best Honors Scholarships 2015
Semester High Honor, Korea University 2015 - 2018 (7 semesters)
ACM-ICPC Ho-chi-minh city Regional Honorable mention 2017
ACM-ICPC Daejeon Regional 2017 17th Place / 2015 23rd Place
Samsung Collegiate Programming Cup (SCPC) Finalist 2015, 2016
LG Code Challenger Finalist 2015
JongHa Scholarship 2015
Extra-curricular Activities
President (2017), Vice President (2016), Korea University Algorithm Learners & Problem Solvers (ALPS) (2015.03 - 2018.06)
Lectured C, C++, data structure, algorithms to members with own materials for several semesters
Supported university members’ ACM-ICPC preparation with team-building contests, lectures, and the Veritas Scholarship Program