Basic

NameIzzy Park
Emailme@ipark.dev
Phone330-474-9654

Languages

Ruby
Typescript
Python
C++
Java

Frameworks

React
Rails
Express
Photo of me on a hike in Switzerland

About Me

I'm a senior software engineer with a passion for building quality products. I've worked across the stack from front-end to back-end along with some devops, data science, and machine learning. I'm always looking to learn new things and improve my skills.

Experience

Jun 2022-Present

Academia Inc

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

Ruby Typescript React.js Rails Postgres AWS Redshift
  • Built embedding based paper recommendations resulting in 240x calculation time improvement and +20% lift in CTR
  • Wrote a context-free LaTeX grammar to improve document conversion success rate
  • Used logistic regression to predict email open rate and improved our email profitability by $60k per month
  • Organized a cross-disciplinary team to triage and address security issues
  • Prototyped LLM based projects to better understand their business implications
  • Organized monthly dev all-hands meetings with presentations from across the org
  • Implemented AMI baking to improve EC2 startup time
Jun 2018-Jun 2022

Academia Inc

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Ruby Typescript React.js Rails Postgres AWS Redshift
  • Productionized system to identify similar papers across the site eventually used inside almost every feature on the site
  • Implemented a system for generating zip archives in JavaScript as a MVP of what quickly became our second most profitable product offering
  • Automated migration of 200+ files from Sprocket to Webpack through custom Babel AST transforms
  • Implemented direct S3 uploads of documents, reducing errors for large uploads and powering thousands of uploads per day
  • Designed self-healing system for choosing recommendation emails + content for 10 million users a day using Redis, Sidekiq, and Postgres
May 2017-May 2018

Commercial Time Share Inc

Development Intern

PHP Android SQL C++ PDF
Updated an Android app to support physical scan hardware. Bug fix for an in house HTML to PDF render. Created architecture for tire tracking system. Built framework to aid in development of PHP + Soap web app to meet technical requirements.
Aug 2016-May 2017

Kent State Deans Office

Student developer

React.js Flask Peewee PDF.js
Working on projects to help Kent's board of trustees better interact with quarterly board books.
Aug 2014-May 2017

Kent State University Libraries

Student worker

React.js Flask C++ NGINX
Though my primary rule was support, developed a program to monitor which public machines were in use.

Education

Aug 2013-May 2017

Kent State University

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Graduated summa cum laude with a 3.907 GPA.
Aug 2017-May 2019

Kent State University

Bachelor's in Biotechnology

For a year I thought about getting a second degree in biology. While I continue to find biology interesting and courses like cell biology were some of the most interesting I took in college I decided to focus on Software Engineering.