Dongkyoung Kim
Vice President at The Apache Software Foundation
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDongkyoung Kim is a cloud-native engineering leader with 11 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, now serving as Vice President at Goldman Sachs in Dallas. He designed and shipped multi-cluster L7 load balancers and edge/service-mesh solutions (Istio/Envoy) that handle millions of requests per second and withstand data-center level failures. As an Apache OpenWhisk committer and PMC member, he helped architect its next-generation serverless platform, delivering up to 155x performance improvements and contributing infrastructure and Docker integrations. Previously at NAVER he drove adoption of serverless and container platforms that cut DevOps costs by 33% and supported massive national-scale APIs under tight timelines. Known for blending hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with team coaching, he frequently presents his work at major open-source conferences and mentors engineers to become committers themselves.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
공학 학사, Computer Engineering, 공학 학사, Computer Engineering at 중앙대학교수성고등학교
Github Skills (13)
ansible-galaxy10
serverless10
docker10
nginx10
dockers10
ansible10
cicd9
kubernetes-pods9
cloud-computing9
kubernetes9
bash8
networking8
python7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
apache/openwhisk
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
Apache OpenWhisk is an open source serverless cloud platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 466 reviews, 69 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Dongkyoung contributed to the configuration and maintenance of the Apache OpenWhisk serverless platform. Their work included making the nginx SSL configurations and health checks more robust. Furthermore, they were involved in integrating the platform with Docker, including changes to support Docker for Mac and updates to the Docker client version. This suggests a focus on infrastructure, networking, and deployment aspects of the project.
serverless-cloudfunctionsserverlessapachedocker
style95/openwhisk-website
Aug 2020 - Apr 2024
Apache OpenWhisk website (openwhisk.apache.org) content; built using Jekyll
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 8 months
serverlessdockerapacheapache-openwhiskcloud
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