Summary
Ki Hong is a senior SRE and cloud security engineer with 10 years of experience building and hardening production infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently leading cloud security and SRE efforts at Navan, he designs AWS-native platforms with Terraform, Snowflake, Cloudflare and runtime security tooling like Prisma Cloud and Zscaler. Previously he ran Vault-based secrets management and data lake logging pipelines at [24]7.ai and led cloud DevOps at FICO, automating AMI patching, CI/CD and monitoring across large fleets. His background spans top-tier research institutions—Seoul National University, Carnegie Mellon and UC Berkeley—bringing a researcher's rigor to practical security and reliability problems. Notably, he blends deep DevOps automation with security-first operations, making systems both scalable and auditable.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Berkeley
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) at Seoul National University
Carnegie Mellon University