Dong Kang
Systems Architect & Senior Data Scientist
Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDong Kang is a systems architect and senior data scientist with over a decade building backend, infrastructure, and platform solutions for high-availability services. He designs intelligent, event-driven systems—most recently architecting an autonomous, serverless CI/CD platform at DSRV that unified siloed GitHub Actions and added a Vertex AI agent layer to let developers orchestrate infrastructure via natural language. His work spans multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), Infrastructure-as-Code, and blockchain validator tooling (lead author of the open-source VATZ monitor), with a track record of improving uptime and cutting cloud costs. Dong has driven security and high-traffic payment features at enterprises like PayPay and Samsung Knox, and has repeatedly been tapped for cross-cultural leadership and rapid impact in distributed teams. Based in Bentonville, AR, he combines a simplicity-driven engineering mindset with hands-on delivery and experience partnering directly with Google on early AI integration. He is seeking backend, infrastructure, or platform roles where he can scale reliable, cost-effective systems and embed developer productivity into the platform.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Northeastern University
English, Korean, Japanese
Github Skills (95)
cryptocurrency10
api10
plugin10
blockchain10
sdk9
golang9
management9
backend9
blockchain-platform9
cosmos-sdk9
secured9
interchain9
protocols9
monorepo8
cli8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dsrvlabs/vatz
Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
Node management integration tools in purpose of maximizing node's uptime for any protocols
Contributions:7 releases, 96 reviews, 47 commits in 11 months
node-managementblockchainmaximizingpurposevalidator
dsrvlabs/vatz-plugin-sysutil
Dec 2022 - Oct 2024
vatz plugin for system utilization monitoring
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 2 PRs in 1 year 10 months
monitoringcitrixnetscalerutilization
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