Jinwook Kim
TL Game Server Team Leader at NCSOFT
South Korea
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Top SchoolJinwook Kim is a seasoned game server engineer and team leader with 14 years focused on MMORPG and large-scale server architecture, currently leading the Game Server Team at NCSOFT. He combines deep C++ and distributed-systems expertise—actor-model design, lock-free programming and distributed server patterns—to ship robust, low-latency multiplayer backends for titles like TalesRunner and Lineage-related projects. His career traces from early casual-game server work and P2P networking to enterprise-grade MMORPG servers, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on performance, scalability and operational reliability. Known for blending hands-on implementation with technical leadership, he often tackles the subtle concurrency problems that others avoid. Based in South Korea, he brings a pragmatic engineering style shaped by both game studios and embedded/application work at Samsung.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Kyungpook National University
Korean, English
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Github Skills (33)
protocol-buffers10
windows10
linux10
windows-package-manager10
serialization10
rpc10
protobuf10
marshalling9
editor9
electron9
javascript9
fileshare9
azure-storage-explorer9
macos9
protoc9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zelon/WimyLime
Sep 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:112 commits in 1 year
rhythmjavascriptyoutuberhythm-game
zelon/google-styleguide
Jan 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
svgclonedgithub-clonesvnstyleguide
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