Sojung Park Email & Phone Number

United States

New York, New York , Us

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

I worked with the Doorsteps.com team.Streamlined deployment process through Heroku auto-deploy and release scripts.Automated image optimization to render image sizes appropriate for different browser widths and cut down on load speed.Migrated front-end codebase to next.js to enable server-side rendering and code-splitting.Implemented daily crawls of the website to generate sitemaps that would enhance SEO.Kicked off a series of integration tests using puppeteer, a headless Chrome module; triggered these tests along with a Lighthouse performance test on each deployment using a Heroku deploy hook and a DigitalOcean server.Revamped a Facebook messenger bot to better handle edge cases and errors. Error rate decreased from ~60/day to ~10/day.Set up Amplitude tracking on the Facebook messenger bot to better understand users' onboarding behavior and experience.Automated critical CSS update on deployment.

Boulder, Co, Us

Taught CS fundamentals, such as data structures, instantiation patterns, client- and server-side techniques, database and deployment.Managed incoming students’ progress in pre-course assignments through mentorship and assessments.Advised students on designing and building modern, full-stack apps using major JavaScript frameworks and libraries.Gave after-hour talks on practical topics such as Express middleware.Provided toy problem solution lectures to improve students' algorithmic thinking.

Covered the court, crime and society beats for South Korea’s national news wire agency. Spent the last year on the culture and sports beat, primarily attending K-pop related events and writing about them. Among the events covered: Pope Francis' visit to Korea, the 2014 Asian Games, the 2015 Gwangju Universiade, KCON New York 2016, and KCON Japan 2016.

London, London, Gb

Recommended by the head of a local English journalist association to the position.Briefed the correspondent daily on local news and helped pick out promising stories.Arranged and interpreted interviews from Korean to English. Translated other documents as needed.

Us

Contributed research on Korea’s economic policy using Excel and SPSS.Translated PowerPoint presentations from Korean to English. Drafted the intro part of the final outcome report in English.Compiled daily press clips and transcribed international phone interviews.

Akasaka, Tokyo, Jp

Created and managed the official Facebook page; number of fans increased ten-fold to nearly 400 as of Sep. 2012.Attracted 34 new donors through an intern-organized workshop.Translated the official Japanese website into English (www.jen-npo.org/en).Interpreted Japanese into English during a two-day conference with the Hakuhodo consulting firm.Maintained monthly correspondence with Yomiuri Shimbun, a key sponsor for the organization.

Awarded grant to design an alternative chemotherapeutic that minimizes normal cell damage.

Education record

B.A., Chemistry, International Studies, Global Health

Summer Program, Public Health

High School Diploma

One-Year Exchange Program, International Liberal Studies