Edward Kim
Principal Engineer at Lendi
Gosford, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolEdward Kim is a Principal Engineer based in Gosford, Australia with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and integration middleware. He has progressed from systems and middleware roles at IBM to platform and Kubernetes-focused engineering at Fairfax and Lendi, where he now drives architecture and delivery. His technical breadth spans AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes/Openshift, Go, Java, Ruby and integration stacks (WebSphere/DataPower), enabling him to bridge legacy enterprise integrations with modern DevOps practices. Edward is comfortable across the full lifecycle—designing pipelines, automating deployments, and scaling or tearing down environments—and has a track record of turning complex integration problems into repeatable platform solutions. With dual degrees in Computational Science and Mechatronics from the University of Sydney, he pairs rigorous engineering foundations with a pragmatic focus on operability. A less obvious strength is his long experience in enterprise ESB and message-broker patterns, which gives him uncommon insight when unifying legacy systems with cloud-native architectures.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Github Skills (184)
controller10
testing10
terraform10
serverless10
k8s10
terraform-module10
charts10
packer10
helm10
lambda10
kubernetes10
go10
ecr10
debug10
docker10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
lendi-au/npm-global-buildkite-plugin
Oct 2020 - May 2023
This is a buildkite plugin to install a global npm package as part of the agent build. Utilises a custom node package location
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
buildkitebuildkite-pluginnodejsnpm
lendi-au/ICAPI-DataDog
Sep 2019 - Mar 2025
Provides a simple integration script to push data from the Instaclustr Monitoring REST API to DataDog
Contributions:4 reviews, 12 PRs, 41 pushes in 5 years 7 months
apipushrestinstaclustrrest-api
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