Jim Park
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Park is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently driving backend and full-stack initiatives at Amazon from Vancouver. He has a strong systems and C++ background from work on satellite downlink and depth-sensor projects, and has applied real-time processing, multithreading, and computer vision (OpenCV, YOLO) in research and industrial settings. At Amazon he progressed from SDE to senior SDE, bringing production-grade software delivery and incident-driven fixes to large codebases. Jim also contributes to open-source game development, implementing levels, items, and game logic in Lua, showing a practical curiosity for interactive systems beyond his day job. He combines low-level engineering rigor with a habit of shipping pragmatic tools that bridge research prototypes and production services.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering at Faculty of Applied Sciences at Simon Fraser University
English, Korean
Github Skills (4)
game-development10
lua10
leveldb9
object-oriented-programming8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hawkthorne/hawkthorne-journey
Aug 2012 - Jun 2015
Digital Estate Planning: The Game
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:498 commits, 18 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jim's commits primarily involve modifying the Lua code for the "Hawkthorne Journey" game. Their contributions center around implementing new levels, adding new items and weapons (e.g., "glaive," "throwingaxe"), and integrating features, such as quests. The user worked on various game elements, including enemy behavior, NPC interactions, and overall game logic, as well as fixing bugs and performing minor code modifications. The commits also show a general knowledge of game development including creating and changing game objects.
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didory123/hawkthorne-journey
Jan 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 84 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 5 months
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