Jaesuk Ahn
Chief Technology Officer at kt cloud
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolJaesuk Ahn is a seasoned cloud-native leader and Chief Technology Officer at kt cloud with nine years of focused experience in designing and delivering Kubernetes-based PaaS and managed services. He has led container platform, lifecycle management, GitOps CI/CD, AI serving, service mesh and policy/LMA initiatives across SK Telecom and kt, translating research into production-grade cloud infrastructure. Known for driving upstream open source efforts (including leadership in OpenStack Korea and contributions via openinfradev), he blends systems thinking with product-minded business model development. His background includes academic research on distributed intelligent agents from UT Austin and early career automation work at Samsung, giving him a rare mix of formal research, telecom-scale operations, and hands-on platform engineering. Based in Seoul, he is adept at turning declarative infrastructure and GitOps practices into scalable managed services for enterprises and carriers. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who pairs deep technical rigor with an eye for operationalizing open-source innovations.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS/PhD Software Engineering, MS/PhD Software Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical Engineering at Dongguk University
English, Japanese, Korean
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Github Skills (79)
vagrantfile10
yaml-configuration10
netscaler10
resource-management10
taco10
yaml9
helm9
contour9
calico9
k3s9
openstack9
k8s8
rancher8
cilium8
kubeadm8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sktelecom-oslab/Virtualization-Software-Lab
Dec 2017 - Jul 2019
SK텔레콤 SW기술원 Virtualization Software Lab 기술블로그
Contributions:86 commits, 9 PRs, 80 pushes in 1 year 7 months
virtualizationlabsoftware-virtualization
openinfradev/taco-docs
Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
taco documentation
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 8 PRs in 10 months
taco
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