David Ko
Director Of Engineering at SUSE
Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Ko is a seasoned engineering leader and architect based in Taiwan, currently Director of Engineering at SUSE with over 20 years in software and a decade in senior management roles. He builds and scales cloud-native teams and systems, having founded SUSE’s ECM engineering presence in Taiwan and led Open Source projects like Longhorn and Harvester. Technically hands-on, he blends DevOps, distributed storage and backend expertise—contributing Helm chart/manifest automation and manager-side stability fixes to the widely used Longhorn project. His background spans designing distributed data platforms, CQRS/actor systems, streaming pipelines and production-grade CI/CD and self-healing deployment mechanisms. Known for growing teams and fostering OSS communities (KubeCon office hours, documentation and website work), he pairs pragmatic engineering with product and community advocacy.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at National Taiwan UniversityBachelor's degree Management Information Systems General, Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General at National Chung Cheng University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (35)
kubernetes10
volumes10
bash10
rancher10
automation10
go10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
management10
automations10
documentation10
website-development9
controller9
debug9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
longhorn/website
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
https://longhorn.io/
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:971 reviews, 114 commits, 588 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:David's contributions primarily revolve around updating the website's documentation. This includes adding "noindex" meta tags to older documentation versions to improve SEO and merging documentation updates. The user also added a "promo" page, indicating a focus on marketing materials, and made minor changes to styling using SASS. Additionally, the user updated the version dropdown on the documentation page, adding new versions.
longhornkubernetesstorage
longhorn/longhorn-manager
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Millions and millions of volumes orchestrated
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2951 reviews, 96 commits, 1617 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on fixing bugs and making improvements to the Longhorn Manager. They addressed typos, fixed naming issues, and deprecated a UI policy. Furthermore, they updated dependencies and made code changes related to volume controllers and snapshot validators. Their work indicates a focus on stability, code quality, and ensuring Longhorn operates correctly.
pythonvolumesdata-protectionpersistentstorage
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