Sung Kang
Software Engineer at Figma
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSung Kang is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building and modernizing cloud-native systems across fintech, retail, and consumer product companies. He's driven event-driven migrations, microservice decompositions, and infrastructure automation—leading initiatives at H-E-B, RetailMeNot, Block, and now Figma—to reduce toil, shorten deploy times, and improve reliability. Comfortable across backend services, Kubernetes/EKS, Kafka, Terraform, and CI/CD, he has repeatedly owned operational SRE practices, SLIs/SLOs, and secrets/config management at scale. Sung pairs hands-on coding with architectural leadership, having replatformed critical build and deployment pipelines and implemented high-throughput services. Based in Austin, he balances pragmatic engineering with evangelism for best practices—often surfacing the operational gaps teams overlook when moving from monoliths to distributed platforms.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Maryland
English, Korean
Github Skills (94)
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pgp10
terraform10
vpc10
kubernetes-setup10
terraform-module10
markdown10
charts10
kubernetes-cluster10
thin10
kubernetes-deployment10
api10
pipeline10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
skang0601/terraform-provider-datadog
Jun 2020 - Feb 2023
Terraform Datadog provider
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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skang0601/terraform-provider-aws
Sep 2019 - May 2021
Terraform AWS provider
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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