Simone Park

Simone Park is a Product Engineer at DevicePrep focused on diagnostics—turning low-level browser signals into clear, human-friendly feedback. She builds and maintains tools like mic, webcam, speaker, and network tests, and she collaborates with editorial to ensure every guide has a fast way to verify progress.

Simone grew up in Northern Virginia in a family of teachers, where curiosity was treated like a skill you could practice. She was the kid who read settings screens for fun and kept a running list of shortcuts for fixing everyday tech issues for friends and relatives.

She earned her Computer Science degree from Virginia Tech, where she gravitated toward web performance and the messy reality of “works on my machine.” During internships, she worked on front-end reliability and accessibility—learning how small UI decisions can reduce support tickets more effectively than a thousand-word article.

Before joining DevicePrep, Simone worked on browser-based media features for a telehealth platform. That job taught her how fragile real-time audio/video can be across devices: permissions that vary by browser, webcams that enumerate differently after sleep, and networks that look fine until a video call starts.

At DevicePrep, Simone helps bridge that gap by making tests obvious and actionable. She focuses on clear states (what’s happening, what to do next), strong defaults, and graceful fallbacks when a browser can’t provide a signal. She also partners with reviewers to validate behavior on both desktop and mobile, across Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge.

Simone cares deeply about privacy-by-design, which is why DevicePrep tools prioritize client-side processing and minimal data collection. Her goal is to let people diagnose issues quickly without feeling like they’re handing over sensitive audio or video.

Outside of work, Simone enjoys climbing gyms, cooking Korean comfort food with her mom’s recipes, and collecting too many niche mechanical keyboards. She measures success in a single moment: when someone joins a call and the first thing they hear is “Great, you’re all set.”