# Chris Youm

> Product Design/Engineering Lead

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chrisyoum

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I am a professional with a unique background that blends over a decade of experience in both software engineering and creative design. My career began at Zynga as a Senior Software Engineer, where I focused on game internationalization and localization engineering. This engineering expertise provides me with a deep technical understanding of how to create feasible and scalable solutions.

Beyond my technical skills, I am also an accomplished designer with a master's degree in New Media. My artistic background informs my approach to UX/UI design, allowing me to create products that are not only functional but also visually compelling and intuitive. I am skilled in web and interactive design, with a focus on user experience and information architecture. My dual expertise in development and design enables me to bridge the gap between technical requirements and user-centered solutions.

## Work Experience
### Product Design/Engineering Lead @ Culture Flipper
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
- Developing a system where AI generates synopses and metadata, but humans act as the "Judge."
- Shaping idea and researching user needs
- Developing Design System and integration for vibe coding environment
- Structuring and developing MVP/pilot/prototype
- Architecting, standardizing, and integrating continuous l10n processes for clients' web products.
- Assessing clients' development code structure and consulting on i18n best practices, including frameworks and processes.

### Product Development Lead @ EZ-Trust
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | South Korea
- Led the design strategy and execution for mobile, web, and responsive platforms, ensuring a unified user experience across the entire ecosystem.
- Utilized Google Analytics and Hotjar to analyze user behavior, identifying friction points that informed major information architecture (IA) overhauls and feature prioritizations.
- Scaled and maintained a comprehensive design system in Figma, streamlining the handoff process and reducing development cycles by ensuring component consistency.
- Partnered directly with PMs and Engineering teams to translate complex technical requirements into intuitive, "magical" user interactions.
- Leveraged an AI-native workflow (Figma AI, Claude) to move from high-fidelity wireframes to interactive prototypes, accelerating stakeholder alignment and usability testing.

### Automation Engineer & Dev Operation @ xToken
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Automation Engineering (Ethereum/Optimism/Arbitrum/AWS)
- Building Subgraph of xToken Origination
- Dune Analytic metrics for xToken Terminal total supply/accumulated TVL/TVL
- Designing automation infrastructures(execute, monitor, report) and specs of bots that manages xToken assets operations(creating tx, listening events, parsing data from blockchain, monitoring tx activities)
- Building APY/APR data feed API that serves public accessible xToken products
- Managing internal automation/bot/EC2 servers
- Develop Upgradable xToken(company native token) Smart Contract

### Senior Software Engineer @ Zynga
Jan 2010 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
• System Engineering (AWS)
- AWS Meltdown & Spectre Security Update 
- Managing internal tool/Jenkins/Nagios EC2 servers
- Updating and maintaining server software - apache, node, php, couchDB, xdebug

• Incontext Translation Tool development using OCR(Optical Character Recognition) and Image Processing
Role and responsibility:
- Leading the early investigation of technical possibilities and limitations
- Architecting initial tool system from backend to frontend
- Improving OCR accuracy to over 90%
- Developing simplified color based on Image postprocessing using ImageMagic
- Integrating automated game screen capture(ADB for Android and Libimobiledevice for iOS) 
Environment: Tesseract-OCR 3, ImageMagic, PHP, Shell, Red Hat 4.1.2, ADB, Libimobiledevice

• Unity 3D i18n (for mobile specific) engineering
Role and responsibility:
- Investigating and evaluating Unity for i18n specific purpose
- Investigating and validate UNity and NGUI for non Latin languages - Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Arabic
- Providing ICU based string manipulation solutions to game team
Environment: Unity, ICU, NGUI, Sysfont, iOS, Android, GIT, C# 

• Objective-C and Java i18n framework(for mobile specific) engineering
Role and responsibility:
- Building i18n specific functionalities for neutral, neuter, gendered, common languages include Russian, Arabic and Hebrew
- Integrating the framework on zynga global release structure
- Guiding game developer for integration of mobile framework
Environment: Objective-C, Java(Android), Xcode, ADT, GIT, JSUnit

• I18N/L10N Engineering
Role and responsibility:
- Resolving ICU, RTL, font, encoding related localization problems
- Resolving technical fails on the process of translation delivery   
Environment: Unity3D, ActionScript3, PHP, JS, Smarty, Shell, Jenkins, FB connect, XTM, SVN, ICU
L10N languages: FR, IT, DE, ES, PT, JA, ID, KO, TH, TR, ZHT, DA, NB, NL, SV, AR

### Web front-end developer @ Linden Lab
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010
- Specialized in web engineering, web localization, internationalization on the web and Second Life viewer
- Built Linden Lab's web localization framework which involved the web structure redesign and web front-end functionalities for Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
- Managed UI design and contents on international web products.
- Managed translation on version control system.
- Built Korean translation style guide and glossary.
- Managed Naver Café(external SL user community) and forum in secondlife.com
- Analyzing Initial staging of Korean user activity for business dev team.
- Managed and identified QA result for every international product.
- Managed test plan and test environment for QA and localization team.
- Korean translation QA for Second Life client and web contents.


## Education
### MFA in New Media
Academy of Art University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xflux

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Last updated: 2026-04-13