Summary
Kyungwook Tak is a lead software engineer with 10 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale maps and mobility backends at NAVER in Seoul. He leads a 15+ engineer Directions team responsible for route planning, multi-modal navigation, realtime/batch data pipelines, and ML/DL model serving for ETA and arrival estimation. His work spans Kafka streaming, Hadoop/Spark batch processing, TensorFlow Serving, and cloud-native deployments on Kubernetes, bridging algorithmic route engineering (A*/Dijkstra) with production data systems. Prior experience at Samsung on the Tizen platform adds systems and security depth across consumer devices. Notably, he has designed automated public transit data deployment and innovative subway station positioning using WiFi AP scans—demonstrating a knack for turning unconventional datasets into operational services.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at 고려대학교