Taehyun Park

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Principal Engineer at Sony · Redis, rate limiting

Sony
Seoul, South Korea · KST (UTC+9)
9+ years experience
INSEAD Singapore
English, Korean
Open to work
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Overview

I work on API platforms at Sony in Seoul. Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: NAB and Meta.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in climate
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Second opinions on rate limiting decisions
Please don't message about
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Decks without a clear ask
  • Crypto token projects

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
RESTDjangoPythonPostgreSQLOpenAPIRedisrate limiting
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Lead Backend Engineer roles in supply chain - Seoul or remote

Target roles
Lead Backend Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Climate tech, Logistics
Work mode
Hybrid
Available
Immediately
Work authorization
Authorized to work in South Korea
What I'm looking for
Hands-on work on Redis with room to mentor.
Not interested in
Night shifts

13 years in API platforms. Strongest at rate limiting and Redis. Can start in about six weeks.

Seoul, South Korearestopenapipython
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Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    Nov 2025 - Present
    Sony · 11 mo · Full-time · Seoul, South Korea
    • Sit on 2 boards.
    • Backed 42 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Senior Backend Engineer
    Jan 2023 - Nov 2025
    NAB · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Seoul, South Korea
    • Wrote the Redis service that now handles 2 million requests a day.
  3. Staff Backend Engineer
    Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
    Meta · 2 yr · Full-time · Seoul, South Korea
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 39 a week to 3.
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 411ms to 140ms.
  4. Senior Backend Engineer
    Feb 2019 - Jan 2021
    Deloitte · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Seoul, South Korea
    • Wrote the Python service that now handles 15 million requests a day.
  5. Backend Engineer
    Aug 2017 - Feb 2019
    PropertyGuru · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Seoul, South Korea
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 3.

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Education

  1. INSEAD Singapore
    MBA, Business Administration
    2015 - 2017
  2. Bandung Institute of Technology
    BEng, Information Technology
    2009 - 2013

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