Young Rok Kim

EDUCATION

Ajou University, Suwon, Korea February 2015

• Bachelor of Science and Engineering, Major in Computer Science Engineering
• Courses taken:
  • Data Structure, Computer Architecture, Algorithm, Theory of computation, AI
  • Database, Computer Networks, Internet Protocols, Information Security
  • Objective-Oriented Programming, System Programming, Operating System
  • Software Engineering, Mobile Service Platform, Capstone Design

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL Spring 2013

• Information Technology Certificate, Professional Learning Programs
• Courses taken:
  • Internet Technologies Web Design
  • Intermediate Java Programming
  • Human-Computer Interaction

WORK EXPERIENCES

June 2016 ~ Sinicompany Inc.
CLOSER Project / Tech Lead & Full Stack Developer

• Building a WYSIWYG chatbot builder and chatbot-integrated live chat service for customer contact center.
• Designing a combination of serverless and microservice architecture to solve problems from massive and unpredictable loads from customer’s chatbots
• Managing reliable and transparent CI/CD pipeline by using Jenkins and CircleCI
• Keep learning and practicing …

December 2015 – June 2016 Mabopractice Inc.
Mabopractice Project / Tech Lead & Full Stack Developer

• Designed and built an app including training, media library, activity logger and community features about meditations.
• Mainly built with NodeJS, MongoDB, Redis, Firebase and AWS.
• Used RxJava to solve problems from asynchronous data stream in the android development.
• Used AWS S3 and Cloudfront CDN service to stream multimedia reliably in the backend development.
• Used BackboneJS with Backbone Form to rapidly build a content management system and back-office tool development.

December 2014 – April 2015 Wonderabbit Inc.
Couplete 2.0 Project / Android Developer

• Designed and built an app including album, messenger, event curations, calendar and other useful features for couples.
• Used Crashlytics to manage and reduce application related issue
• Used Google Analytics and Flurry to track user engagement and behavior.
• Used MQTT messaging protocol to implement custom push service for chat server.
• Created sophisticated custom views to implement rich user interface and interaction experience.

April 2010 – January 2012 Republic of Korea Army
Served and discharged as Signalman, Sergeant

• Managed battalion’s intranet and computing equipment as a Computer Technician soldier.

AWARDS AND HONORS

November 2016 Awarded in Startup Weekend Gacheon / Pony the beauty secretary

• Designed and built a chatbot that search beauty products by photo and suggest product recommendations regularly.
• Used Google Vision API to analyze photos

August 2016 Awarded in K-Global Starthon 2016 / CLOSER

• Designed and built chatbot framework and created example chatbots
  (e.g. Korean grammar checker, lyrics search, parcel tracker, …)
• Implemented the initial version of flow-based chatbot data structure and architecture of CLOSER.

March 2016 Awarded in Startup Weekend Seoul / 9to6

• Designed and built an e-commerce web application for adult stuffs for women.
• Mainly built with MeteorJS and Google App Engine

November 2015 Awarded in Startup Weekend Seoul / Chicken Raider

• Designed and built an mobile service for instant chicken gathering.
• Implemented lookup system for nearby chicken pub and review platform using Google Maps and Google Places API.

April 2015 Awarded in Startup Garage Ajou / Goragora Angora Rabbit

• Designed and built a mobile game on Unity 4.
• Implemented artificial logic for rabbit behavior, real-time system for manufacturing game item.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES

• Programming Language:

  • C, C++, C#
  • Java, Scala, Kotlin
  • Objective-C, Swift
  • HTML5, CSS3 / CSSnext, Javascript (ES6~), Typescript
  • Ruby, Python, Golang

• Platform & Framework Experience:

  • Linux (CentOS / Ubuntu)
  • Android / iOS / Universal Windows App
  • HTML5 / Modern Web
    
    
  • Spring, NodeJS, Django, Ruby on Rails, ASP .NET
  • React, Vue, Angular, Webpack, Rollup, …
  • Arduino
  • Unity, Cocos2D, Dark GDK

• Database Management System

  • MySQL (MariaDB), SQLite3, PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB, DynamoDB
  • Redis
  • (Application Database) Realm, MapDB

• Process / Container management

  • nodemon, pm2
  • docker, docker-compose, kubernetes

• Cloud Service Experience

  • Amazon Web Service
  • Google Cloud Platform (+ Firebase)
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Heroku

• DevOps

  • GitHub
  • Jenkins, CircleCI, TravisCI
  • Fabric, Bugsnag, Rollbar
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • Serverless framework
  • Chef, Ansible, Kubernetes

• Utilities

  • Slack
  • G Suite
  • Zoho Suite
  • Mailchimp
  • Atlassian Jira, Confluence
  • Google Analytics
  • Facebook Pixel
  • Flurry