Daniel Park
Lead SWE
New York, NY
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Daniel Park

Slack systems architect at Take-Two — 70+ gaming studios, 1.4M+ channels, enterprise-scale reliability.

✉ danielpark94@gmail.com 📞 (703) 347-1111 📍 New York, NY
Slack Advisory Board 14× Hackathon Winner Lead SWE · Take-Two W&M CS '16

1.4M
Slack channels managed by distributed retention system
70+
Gaming studios on the collaboration platform
500+
Apps migrated across 70+ workspaces consolidated to 3
99%
Uptime on incident response Slackbot — 90+ incidents resolved
# experience 7 positions across 6 companies

Career Timeline

Take-Two Interactive  ·  New York, NY
Lead Software Engineer
Jun 2023 – Present
  • Designed, developed and deployed internal tooling to ensure alignment with security, legal and operational standards for over 70 gaming studios.
  • Engineered anti-exfiltration bots that monitored Rockstar's Slack — deleted attachments, prompted secure uploads, and sent leadership reports.
  • Architected Splunk and Datadog monitors to alert when anything in Slack gets shared to Rockstar.
  • Built a bot that locks Rockstar Slack statuses to a pre-approved list of emojis and texts.
  • Evaluated AI tools company-wide (ChatGPT, CoPilot, Gemini, CursorAI, SourceGraph, Glean, Claude). Developed Take-Two's first ChatGPT-powered Slack chatbot for incident management.
  • Developed a distributed system to set retention for 1.4 million Slack channels and DMs of 2K users over 8 days — gracefully handling rate limiting with resume capability. System continues to oversee future DMs and channels.
  • Built a script using a convolutional neural network to flag inappropriate emoji; HR used it to remove 450 emoji. Generates weekly reports with workflow buttons for easy removal.
Slack API Python Splunk Datadog CNN / ML OpenAI API Active Directory
Take-Two Interactive  ·  New York, NY
Senior Software Engineer
Oct 2020 – Jun 2023
  • Drove external user strategy by delivering a guest management bot. Slack org owner for 21,000 users.
  • Led Slack platform integration for Take-Two's $13B Zynga acquisition — the largest workspace migration in company history. Also oversaw Dots, Hookbang, Dynamixyz, VC Austin, HB Studios, Nordeus, Squad, Roll7, Gram Games and Gearbox.
  • Architected and executed workspace consolidation strategy — reduced 70+ workspaces, 500+ apps, and 3,000+ users to a unified 3-workspace architecture.
  • Delivered the Emoji Screener Bot — HR and InfoSec used it to administrate over 46,000 emoji uploads.
  • Developed the Rockstar Channel Bot — all channels created through this app to enforce naming conventions and permissions. Included workflows to archive, unarchive, rename, and convert channels.
  • Lead of Asians in Gaming since 2021, an employee resource group of 100+ people with a $55,000 yearly budget.
  • Speaker at internal conferences at Capital One, Splunk, and Take-Two on Slack bot development and deployment.
Slack API Python Node.js Cloud Migration Workspace Admin
Splunk  ·  Seattle, WA
Cloud Security & Compliance Software Engineer
Feb 2020 – Jun 2020
  • Architected and delivered the incident response bot — a Slackbot to assist the NOC with incidents. 99% availability, 90+ incidents remediated.
  • Implemented automated testing, alerting, metrics and monitoring for the incident bot. Designed and provisioned the AWS/k8s/Docker infrastructure.
  • Designed and implemented a secrets injection pipeline using Terraform, k8s, GitLab, Bash and Vault.
  • Maintained an identity and access management portal through Jira, Okta, GitLab and Terraform.
Slack API AWS Kubernetes Docker Terraform Vault Okta
Polly  ·  Seattle, WA
Full Stack Software Engineer
Jun 2019 – Nov 2019
  • Contributed to cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure and application development for a Series A startup.
  • Refactored the entirety of the poll authoring experience to use Slack's new Block Kit modals API.
  • Audited the entire application for SOC II compliance — secondary pen test by Bishop Fox returned no vulnerabilities.
Slack Block Kit Node.js SOC II
Capital One  ·  Tysons, VA
Full Stack Software Engineer
Jul 2016 – Jun 2019
  • Pitched, designed and delivered OneView — a MEAN stack application for search, upload, tagging and download of 55 million loan documents. Received 2017 Innovation Team Award.
  • Designed and delivered a polling application for upper management — scheduled, anonymized Slack polls. Led a team of 3 devs with a PM over 4 months.
  • Automated cybersecurity incident data aggregation through an incident response Slack bot with post-mortem support. Reduced manual toil by 52 minutes per alert (80% decrease) across 30 alerts per week.
  • Contributed Java production code to the 3rd party external transactions API — the way Capital One exposed up to 180 days of transactions to vendors.
MEAN Stack Java Slack API 2017 Innovation Award
Capital One  ·  Tysons, VA
Software Engineering Intern
Jun 2015 – Aug 2015
  • Built Dash, a sprint tracking solution. Merged into Hygieia in 2015, an open source agile tracker.
Hygieia OSS Agile
Pragmatics  ·  Reston, VA
Technical Consultant
Sept 2015 – Nov 2015
  • Developed two React and React-Native iOS components in ES6 for the FDIC. Delivered code and test suite. Components were used for various banking functionalities.
React React Native FDIC
# projects Notable builds and contributions

Notable Work

Take-Two · Distributed Systems

Slack Retention System

Distributed system setting retention on 1.4 million Slack channels and DMs for 2K users over 8 days. Designed to gracefully handle API rate limiting and resume if interrupted. Continues to govern all future DMs and channels.

PythonSlack APIRate Limiting
Take-Two · Security

Anti-Exfiltration Bots

Bots monitoring Rockstar's Slack for file attachments — automatically delete them, prompt users to upload to the secure video player, and send reports to leadership. Architected complementary Splunk and Datadog alerting.

Slack APISplunkDatadog
Take-Two · AI

ChatGPT Incident Bot

Take-Two's first ChatGPT-powered Slack chatbot, built to manage incidents and cut licensing costs. Evaluated and recommended AI tooling company-wide across ChatGPT, CoPilot, Gemini, CursorAI, SourceGraph, Glean and Claude.

OpenAI APISlack APINode.js
Take-Two · ML / HR Tooling

CNN Emoji Classifier

CNN classifier determining confidence that an emoji is inappropriate. HR used it to flag and remove 450 emoji across 46K uploads. Generates weekly reports with one-click removal workflows.

PythonCNNHR Automation
Splunk · Infrastructure · 99% uptime

Incident Response Slackbot

Slackbot assisting the NOC with incident response. 99% availability, 90+ incidents remediated. Full AWS/k8s/Docker infrastructure design with automated testing, alerting, and monitoring.

Slack APIAWSKubernetes99% uptime
Capital One · 2017 Innovation Award

OneView

MEAN stack application for search, upload, tagging and download of 55 million loan documents. Pitched and led delivery end-to-end. Won Capital One's 2017 Innovation Team Award.

MongoDBExpressAngularNode.js
Slackathon 2019 Winner

Emoji Management System

Won Slack's annual conference hackathon (~150 invites). Built an emoji management system with crowd-sourced automated approval and uploading workflows.

Slack API1st Place
Research · IEEE/ACM · MobileSoft '17

On-Device Bug Reporting for Android

Co-author on a paper accepted into the 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2017.

AndroidIEEE/ACMPublished
# skills Technical toolkit

Technical Toolkit

Languages
JavaScript / TypeScript Python Java Go

Proficient   Working experience

Frameworks & Technologies
React Node / Deno Spring Boot Flask FastAPI Axios Redis SQL HTML / CSS Playwright
APIs & Integrations
Slack API OpenAI API Jira API Active Directory G Suite Postman
DevOps & Infrastructure
AWS Kubernetes Docker Terraform Vault GitLab Jenkins GitHub Actions Splunk Datadog BigQuery Okta
AI Developer Tooling
Claude Gemini CursorAI CoPilot SourceGraph Codex Glean
# accolades Awards, recognition, and community

Accolades & Recognition

  • Capital One 2017 Innovation Team Award

    Awarded for delivering OneView — a MEAN stack loan document management system handling 55 million documents.

  • IEEE/ACM Publication — MobileSoft '17

    Co-author on On-Device Bug Reporting for Android Applications, accepted into the 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering, Buenos Aires, 2017.

  • Slack Customer & Developer Advisory Boards

    Member of both Slack advisory boards. Obtained Slack certifications in Administration and Development in 2020.

  • Slackathon 2019 Winner

    Won Slack's hackathon at their annual conference (~150 invites). Built an emoji management system with crowd-sourced automated approval and uploading. One of 14 hackathon first-place wins.

  • Conference Speaker & ERG Lead

    Speaker at internal conferences at Capital One, Splunk, and Take-Two on Slack bot development. Lead of Asians in Gaming ERG since 2021 — 100+ members, $55,000 yearly budget.

# education Academic background

Education

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The College of William & Mary

B.S. in Computer Science  ·  Williamsburg, VA  ·  Class of 2016

# get-in-touch Send Daniel a message

Get in Touch

Daniel Park

Lead Software Engineer based in New York, NY. Open to interesting conversations.