Charlie King
A more-than-ten-year bug maker and hunter at Gamesofa Inc.
A techinal issue is not, technically, a problem.
System Engineering Supervisor
Taipei, TW
clk.ing [at] gmail [dot] com
Highlights
- Main developer of several games from zero.
- An experienced networking and UN*X system administrator.
- Deep domain knowledge in internet and gaming industry.
Philosophy
- Time is MONEY.
- Programming languages do not matter; quality DOES.
- It's what's inside that drives.
Worked as...
- a programmer, a web developer, and a software engineer
- a system analyst and designer
- a system architect
- a database administrator
- a system and network administrator
- a mentor and a supervisor
Timeline at Gamesofa
System Engineering Supervisor, January 2017 -
- Plan, develop, operate, and maintain networking, hardware and software services and infrastructure to run stuff as developed previously and by all across the company.
- Build and monitor serivces spread across different geolocations and for different purposes.
- Got to solve every issue, and respond to every request.
Engineering Supervisor, April 2013 - January 2017
- Leading a team of 3 to 8 members while still producing quality code.
- In charge of cross-team communications and mentoring team members.
- We operate, we revise, and we serve the games.
- Also in charge of system design.
Senior Engineer, July 2012 - April 2013
- Devoted in development of third-person shooter, GunsRush.
Engineer, December 2008 - July 2012
Responsible for web application development, and later put in development of game servers.
Main developer of serveral games including:
- Miniworld farm
- Chinese Poker
- Sevens
- Big Two
- Texas Hold'em
Skill Set
Domains
- Gaming Industry
- Server/Network Adiminstration
- Server/Network Programming
- Object-oriented Programming
- Web development
- Management and coordination
Platforms
- Linux
- FreeBSD
- AWS
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Whatever is required
Languages
- HTML/Javascript
- Perl/Python/PHP
- C
- Java
- Not limited
Pre-gamesofa ages
- Worked as a junior web programmer at
- DFC 2008
- Saya International 2006-2008
- Yahoo-Kimo 2005-2006
- Self-managed most of the time.
- Somtimes as a soho.
- Involved projects required me to do system planning, setup, and administrations.
Education
Bachelor of Management
Department of Information Management
National Central University
