Kevin Yung
Head Of Mainframe Transformation, AWS Professional Services, APJ
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Yung is a seasoned cloud and mainframe modernization leader with 11 years of focused AWS experience, currently leading Mainframe Transformation for AWS Professional Services across APJ. He combines deep hands-on engineering—designing resilient, high-performance enterprise systems and microservices architectures—with customer-facing consulting to drive large-scale application modernisation. Kevin is an AWS Certified Professional Solution Architect and DevOps specialist who has guided region-wide modernization efforts from Australia to Japan. An active contributor to AWS sample projects, he implemented Lambda-based microservices and improved Java service performance, demonstrating practical migration patterns for legacy workloads. With a master's in Software System Engineering from the University of Melbourne, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic delivery to turn complex legacy estates into cloud-native platforms.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Github Skills (18)
microservices-application10
java10
javas10
lambdas10
aws10
lambda10
serverless10
microservices10
api-design9
restful-api9
jersey9
api-rest9
rest-api9
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/aws-microservices-deploy-options
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
This repo contains a simple application that consists of three microservices. Each application is deployed using different Compute options on AWS.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 12 PRs, 7 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to implementing a Lambda-based microservices architecture on AWS. Their work included setting up handlers for different services (greeting, name, webapp), integrating with Jersey for RESTful APIs, and configuring the application to handle requests and responses. They also added testing frameworks for the name service and refactored controllers to improve performance. Additionally, they addressed code updates and refactoring across multiple Java files.
containerswildfly-swarmconsistsserverlessdocker
allinwonder/cfn2dsl
Jan 2015 - Aug 2019
This is a tool to translate CloudFormation JSON template into a Ruby DSL cfndsl
Contributions:2 releases, 27 commits, 10 PRs in 4 years 7 months
cfndsljson-templatedslrubytranslate
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