Summary
Longji Kang is a Cloud Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and automating AWS infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation and CDK. He has supported large financial and enterprise clients—standardizing EKS patterns, building service catalogs and Backstage templates, and migrating on-prem applications to cloud environments—while also mentoring graduates and leading hiring initiatives. Comfortable at the intersection of cloud platform engineering and software architecture, he routinely contributes to CI/CD, IaC pipelines and reusable module design that speed up team delivery. Based in Benoni, South Africa, he pairs a formal Computer Science education (BSc and Honours from University of Pretoria) with a hobbyist programmer’s curiosity that started in university and still drives continuous learning. A practical problem-solver, Longji blends platform-level thinking with developer-focused tooling to help teams ship reliable, repeatable cloud systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Honours - Graduated, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Honours - Graduated at University of Pretoria