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Gihyun Kwak

Gihyun Kwak

Software Engineer

+82-10-8310-3138
English, Korean

Background


About

About

I have been working at EA Korea for over four years as a software engineer.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Softwar Engineer / FIFA Online4, 

    Feb, 2018 - Present

    • Designed scalable and microservice architecture with Kubernetes.

    • Successfully launched FIFA4 Online serviced in Korea, China, and Southeast Asia.

    • Set up a monitoring and live alerting system using Grafana to keep stable live service.

    • Ran performance tests and optimized live game servers on Kubernetes clusters on AWS to achieve 300k CCU.

    • Reduced performance test preparation time by 70% using Terraform.

    • Created a server capacity calculator based on performance test results. It reduced live server resources by 10%.

    • Worked with a team of developers to build an Esport server and keep the server stable during the Esport event.

  • Software Engineer / Need For Speed Online(EDGE), 

    Jun, 2015 - Feb, 20182 years 7 months

    • Launched Need For Speed EDGE serviced in Korea and China.

    • Mostly worked on mission-critical RESTful services with Node.js, Typescript and Angular front-end work.

    • Developed game server with TDD to deliver it stably to live server.

    • Dealt with live issues reported by users.

  • Software Engineer, 

    Jun, 2014 - May, 20151 year

    developed shopping mall AD system

    • Built frontend services with React and backend services with node.js.

    • Developed a payment server with Python and Integrated the PG(Online payment) system.

    • Built CI / CD pipeline with Jenkins.

Skills

Skills

  • Platform

    Distributed environment

    Scalable architecture

    Container orchestration

    cloud infrastructures

  • Backend

    Node.js

    Redis

    MongoDB

    RabbitMQ

    Consul

  • Devops

    AWS

    Kubernetes

    Docker

    Ansible

  • Frontend

    Javascript/Typescript

    React

    HTML/JSX

Education

Education

  • Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Dongguk University

    - Aug, 2014