Summary
Hong Pak is a DevOps engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure from startups to mid-size companies, currently shaping platform reliability at Poggio Labs in Seattle. He has a strong track record bootstrapping AWS environments with Terraform, running HA services like Vault/Consul, and enabling on-demand CI/CD driven deployments using tools such as Nomad and GitLab CI. At Atrium he was the first SRE hire, led SOC 2 Type 1 efforts, introduced SLO-based on-call practices, and created developer-facing tooling to simplify AWS interactions. His background spans hands-on software work—Rails, React, Go libraries and internal apps—to infrastructure automation with Salt, Ansible, and Vault, reflecting a blend of developer empathy and operational rigor. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic build/buy analysis and forecasting, and he quietly elevates teams by running onboarding programs that demystify incident response and infrastructure concepts.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Fishers High School
Computer Engineering, Engineering, Computer Engineering, Engineering at Purdue University
English, Korean