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Kyoungwook Park

Group Technical Director

Summary

Skilled professional with over 20 years of experience in multiple software engineering domains in E-Commerce, Mobile/Embedded, Finance, Game. Experience in leading cross disciplined engineering teams and fast-paced multinational initiatives.

  • Leads and supervises multiple and distributed engineering teams with 3 to 50 people based in different locations
  • Experience industry leading companies and start up companies
  • Functions as process and product champion, analyze business needs, technology, process, and enterprise applications in distributed environments.
  • Ensures successful leading and execution of software development through effective planning, organizing, work process, strategy/roadmap, and on-going evaluation process
  • Agile leader for prototyping concepts, bridging development staffs, end-users and stakeholders ranging from individual contributors to corporate decision-makers.
  • Experienced 3 products which made 10 billion total sales and many more successful products delivered.
  • Direct and manage all technical aspects of software development including requirements analysis, agile team planning, efficient software development, quality engineering, data pipeline, CI/CD, and feedback loop to iterative development life cycle.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Director of Asia Studios

Electronic Arts
Seoul
08.2018 - Current
  • Developing and implementing technical strategy, roadmap, and work process between multi-national, multi-disciplined, and distributed engineering teams.
  • Participating in Global Tech Council to make company wide tech strategy with members
  • Structure distributed engineering teams in Korea and China
  • Setup observable, data centric, cost-effective decision making process and pipeline that increase engineering efficiency and productivity
  • Successful transition of server/infrastructure to scalable and highly available Micro Service Architecture
  • Successful launch of FIFA Mobile for all over the world


Technical Director

Electronic Arts
Seoul
09.2016 - 08.2018
  • Set up EA Korea organization teams (Game development, Quality Engineering, DevOps/SRE, Engineering manager group)
  • Design and directing for the MSA architecture
  • Continuous structuring and transforming engineering teams to MSA architecture development model
  • Managed technical strategy, roadmap, work process, team efficiency and performance of the engineering teams
  • Supported and launched FIFA Online 4, Need for Speed Edge in Korea(Nexon), China(Tencent), South East Asia countries(Garena), Russia/Poland/Turkey(101xp)
  • Successful transformation of test automation to quality engineering by setting up appropriate team structure and strategy to adopt unit/integration/non-functional requirement test)
  • Improved development life cycle with solid CI/CD process and data pipeline, AI/ML approach

Software Development Manager

The workshop
Seoul
07.2013 - 09.2016
  • Enhanced online gambling products and developed next generation platform
  • Managed multiple engineering teams (client/server, DB, QA, BI, DevOps, PM)
  • Setting up tech roadmap with global studios
  • Improve engineering team work process and capability by adopting test strategy(unit/integration/performance test) and CI/CD pipeline
  • Migrated legacy system based on monolithic C/C++ to new distributed system architecture based on Java/Scala, Akka, NodeJS, LimeJS)
  • Transformed Korean Engineering teams to Multinational/Distributed teams

Software Development Team Lead

Private business, Funnysoft
Seoul
05.2011 - 06.2013
  • Worked as lead engineer for startup game company (own business)
  • Developed mobile/PC game client/server and back-office
  • Launched Hancom typing practice online game, LG U+ TV game, mobile arcade game.)


Software Development Team Lead

iFA
Seoul
03.2009 - 05.2011
  • Worked as software development team lead for General Financial Consulting company
  • Developed groupware and payroll solution of the GA company
  • Developed individual wealth management CRM solution
  • Developed funeral service company CRM/Payroll solution


Research Enginer

LG Electronics
Seoul
12.2004 - 03.2009
  • Software development/research work on embedded system(feature phone) which is targeted for various telecommunication company in US, Europe.
  • Android platform development/research/prototyping


Assistant Engineer (Internship)

Sun Microsystems
Seoul
03.2004 - 08.2004
  • Technical support with Senior engineer for enterprise products such as Identity Server, Sun ONE Application in Sun Microsystems
  • Supported system issues in headquarter of the Samsung Electronics


Own Business

REDBRUSH
Seoul
03.2001 - 09.2004
  • Started private business as web agency
  • Developed e-market place and pyramid marketing CRM/payroll solution
  • Developed 30+ websites and e-market places
  • Provided email marketing and online poll/question solution (30+ companies)

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Engineering

Chung-ang University
Seoul

Timeline

Technical Director of Asia Studios

Electronic Arts
08.2018 - Current

Technical Director

Electronic Arts
09.2016 - 08.2018

Software Development Manager

The workshop
07.2013 - 09.2016

Software Development Team Lead

Private business, Funnysoft
05.2011 - 06.2013

Software Development Team Lead

iFA
03.2009 - 05.2011

Research Enginer

LG Electronics
12.2004 - 03.2009

Assistant Engineer (Internship)

Sun Microsystems
03.2004 - 08.2004

Own Business

REDBRUSH
03.2001 - 09.2004

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Engineering

Chung-ang University

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