Ken Park
CEO, Founder at Knowru
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Park is a FinTech executive and founder with eight years of industry experience building lending and analytics businesses from Hong Kong. As CEO and founder of Knowru and former CRO/CIO at SimpleCredit Micro-Lending, he combines operator-level product strategy with deep risk and fraud analytics expertise. His background includes leading fraud analytics and operations at Enova and hands-on geographic crime data analysis, giving him a rare blend of data science, operations, and compliance experience. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and an applied mathematics undergraduate background from Northwestern, reflecting strong quantitative foundations. Ken’s trajectory—from military sergeant to analytics lead to founder—signals disciplined execution and an ability to translate complex models into scalable financial products. He’s particularly adept at turning fraud signals and geospatial insights into measurable credit-decision improvements.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelors of Science Applied Mathematics (Honors) Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences (Honors), Bachelors of Science Applied Mathematics (Honors) Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences (Honors) at Northwestern UniversityKellogg School of ManagementMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of ChicagoKorean Minjok Leadership Academy
English, Chinese, Korean
Github Skills (11)
emr3
scala2
aws2
machine-learning-models2
machine-learning2
spark2
api2
apache2
apache-spark2
scalable1
data-science1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
knowru/hello_world_spark
Sep 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
emrapachesparkscalaapache-spark
knowru/knowru_client
Oct 2017 - Oct 2020
Client to call runnables inside Knowru
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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