Ivan Kang is a supply-chain and commercial management professional with 10 years’ experience optimizing space and tonnage allocation across container lines and carrier services. Currently Deputy Commercial Manager in Kowloon, he combines trade commercial expertise with data-driven forecasting and performance analysis using Power BI, Tableau and advanced Excel to drive visibility and yield management during peak periods. His career spans roles at major carriers including OOCL, Maersk and Hamburg Süd, where he standardized processes, guided operational procedures and supported supply-chain projects across intra-Asia and Asia-Europe trades. Ivan also brings hands-on technical experience from contributing backend improvements to the well-known open-source Confidant credential manager, demonstrating a practical ability to enhance secure systems and automation. He holds a master’s in Industrial Logistics Systems & Engineering and is known for translating analytical insight into pragmatic commercial decisions that improve asset utilization. Notably, he blends commercial negotiation sensibilities with engineering-style process rigor to reduce friction between sales, operations and partner customers.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master degree in Industrial Logistics System & Engineering, 工業物流系統工程理學, Master degree in Industrial Logistics System & Engineering, 工業物流系統工程理學 at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Confidant: your secret keeper. https://lyft.github.io/confidant
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:14 commits, 16 PRs, 34 pushes in 28 days
Contributions summary:Ivan focused on enhancing the credential management system within the "Confidant" project. Their work involved adding features for credential rotation, including implementing rotation schedules and updating associated metadata. They introduced and refined functionalities for retrieving and updating credentials, including adding a "metadata_only" flag for granular control. They also addressed bug fixes and implemented improvements to the credential management system, such as ensuring the correct updating of archival credentials when the last_decrypted_date field is updated.
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