Mikyung Kang
Computer Engineer, IT Research Computing Team Lead, NETL (National Energy Technology Laboratory)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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SeniorMikyung Kang is a seasoned computer engineer with 15 years of experience leading research computing and high-performance infrastructure at the U.S. Department of Energy’s NETL. She combines deep expertise in heterogeneous and multi-core HPC, hypervisors, and cloud platforms (OpenStack, AWS EC2) with hands-on skills in Python, C/C++, containerization, and configuration management (Puppet, Chef). Her work spans kernel and hypervisor tuning, runtime adaptation for multi-core CPUs, MPI on specialized processors, and cloud performance benchmarking using tools like PerfKitBenchmarker. Based in Pittsburgh, she has a research-rooted background from a decade at ISI and brings a practical focus on deploying scalable, reproducible workflows (Pegasus, PBS/HTCondor) and performance-driven operations. Notably, she blends low-level systems work with cloud-native deployment practices, enabling both experimental research and production-grade compute services.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
openstack10
opendev10
bare9
provisioning8
heterogeneous7
bare-metal7
metal6
python5
hardware5
allocation4
saltstack3
hpc3
openshift2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
usc-isi/nova
Mar 2011 - Dec 2014
Contributions:233 commits in 3 years 9 months
heterogeneousnovacustomizedhardwareopenstack
NoBodyCam/TftpPxeBootBareMetal
Aug 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:2 commits in 5 days
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