Kj Song
Strategic Business Development Manager
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolKj Song is a Strategic Business Development Manager and IoT strategist with nearly a decade of experience driving digital transformation across IoT, AI, big data and communications technologies. He built Samsung SDS’s IoT platform from definition to market, leading product roadmaps, multinational teams and market entry across eight verticals and four regions while landing over 20 enterprise customers. His background blends hands-on engineering (Ph.D. in Electronics from KAIST) with commercial leadership, having designed E2E architectures and led complex global rollouts including Dubai Park ICT. Beyond strategy, he contributes to open-source tooling as a backend developer and package maintainer for the widely used Spack package manager, ensuring software compatibility across compilers and platforms. Pragmatic and technically fluent, he specializes in turning cutting-edge connectivity and analytics into scalable SaaS offerings and strategic partnerships.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electronics Engineering at Pusan National UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electronics Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, French, Italian, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
package-manager-tool10
build-tools10
package-manager10
hpc10
python10
package-management10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Package Maintainer
Backend Developer & Package MaintainerContributions:17 reviews, 4 commits, 28 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kj primarily contributes to the Spack package manager by adding and updating package definitions. Their work includes incorporating new versions of software packages like SU2, FDS, and OpenFOAM, and integrating necessary dependencies. They also implement patches to address build issues related to specific compilers and configurations, demonstrating a focus on ensuring software compatibility and maintainability within the Spack ecosystem. Furthermore, they contribute to existing packages, adding new versions, adding/updating dependencies and applying patches to build with different compilers.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
kjrstory/starter-hugo-academic
Jun 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:16 PRs, 795 pushes, 36 branches in 1 year
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