🛠️ Skills
Broadly, my skills are in data science, Linux server architecture for secure data pipelines, and management.
📊 Data tools/platforms
R Python SQL Stata AWS/Azure cloud Git API Jenkins/Airflow Docker Dask pyspark🖧 Server architecture/administration
Tailscale CrowdSec Portainer/Docker SQL Nextcloud Cal.com RustDesk Ollama Open WebUI HPC/VPS Linux/Windows MS Office🤖 Machine learning or statistical modelling
Metalearner Ensembles/model stacking Surrogate modelling Discrete choice Resampling and tuning Time series forecasting KPI formulation Class imbalance A/B testing🤝 Leadership
Cross functional leadership Mentorship and coaching Data product strategy Enterprise roadmapping Agenda leadership Task scoping and prioritizresearch organizationation👨🏻🏫 Presentation and multimedia
MS PowerPoint Quarto/Bookdown Sony Vegas Kdenlive Audacity GIMP/Photoshop📃 Certifications
ML in Python AWS S3 Clustering/classification in R Influencing people Business Japanese Test J3 Dutch basics Quantum computing basics Shiny dashboard SQL📆 Timeline
Born in Seoul, I grew up speaking Korean, Japanese, and English in a Canadian family. Half of my career has been in the research world since college. Now with more than 10 years of experience, I have been providing research-grade tech pipeline solutions in the private sector.
🎓 Education
University of Chicago, US
Master, Public Policy
2017 Oct - 2018 Dec (early graduation)
∙ Lecturer on statistical modelling at the Institute of Politics∙ Data analytics certificate
∙ Management electives
∙ Esports club (Founder)
∙ GRAD consulting
∙ Gargoyle consulting
Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, ES
Master, Specialized Economic Analysis
2015 Sep - 2016 Jul
Master thesis: Effects of Hosting the Olympics on GDP Using the Synthetic Control Method
University of Illinois at Chicago, US
Bachelor, Economics
2009 Sep - 2014 May
💼 Experience
Exsell, Den Bosch, NL
2021 Nov - 2024 Mar
Exsell is a Dutch marketing/sales data-tech consulting scale-up that streamlines and consolidates clients' data platforms + analysis and predictive systems. Website
BrandLoyalty, Den Bosch NL
2019 Nov - 2021 Nov
BrandLoyalty is a Dutch, multi-billion euro commerce strategy implementation company. BL engages in more than 60 countries on brand loyalty campaigns Website
NORC, Chicago IL US
2018 Jun - 2019 Jul
The NORC is a US-based, private, non-profit, research organisation, ranked top 3 among survey research think tanks or institutions every year. It is one of the biggest independent social academic organisations that has/had clients including the World Bank, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, US Census Bureau, NASA, etc. Wiki Website
Becker Friedman Institute, Chicago IL US
2016 Aug - 2017 Sept
The Gary Becker Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary center for research in economics. Wiki
Becker Friedman Institute, Chicago IL US
2012 July - 2015 June
Projects
Intelligence Factory (Exsell)
With collaboration of the web app team and professional services team, I made majority of the contributions to data engineering pipelines, wrote 13 out of 16 analytical/predictive models (oversaw 16/16), built-up and supported dev ops pipelines. It is altogether "Marketing and Sales Intelligence Factory" as flagship package of Exsell.
This website/server (jintechnolo.gy)
This website acts as my profile, while the back-end acts as the security front for various services and VPN/mesh.