Youn Kim
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Chino Hills, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYoun Kim is a software engineer with a decade of experience and 6+ years focused on backend and cloud-native systems, proficient in Java and Kotlin. Currently at Microsoft, Youn has improved scalability for over 300,000 Azure-managed clusters, integrated Azure Karpenter with Cilium to quadruple node provisioning, and authored CI/CD and test pipeline enhancements that keep AKS aligned with upstream Kubernetes. Past roles include building Spring Boot services and secure GCP configurations at Coinsource and research work at UC Santa Cruz on ML tooling and neural-network pipelines. Youn combines deep systems-level debugging—having fixed bugs in cluster-autoscaler and Karpenter—with practical DevOps contributions to prominent open-source projects like the cloud-provider-azure repo. Based in Chino Hills, CA, Youn brings a blend of production-grade engineering, cloud security experience, and a researcher’s analytical approach to complex distributed systems. Notably, their work often spans both internal enterprise tooling and visible open-source CI/CD improvements that directly impact large-scale cluster reliability.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English, Korean
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
azure10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
devops10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
automated-tests9
go8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/cloud-provider-azure
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Cloud provider for Azure
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 22 days
Contributions summary:Youn primarily focused on modifying the CI/CD pipeline and related configuration files within the repository. Their contributions included adding and adjusting image tags for various components (CAS, CCM, CNM), modifying the `run-e2e.sh` script to incorporate new configurations and variables, and adjusting the `LABEL_FILTER` used for running tests. They also addressed the use of an external repository and reverted to the correct source.
providerazure-functionscloudcloud-providersk8s-sig-cloud-provider
Azure/k8s-work-api
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Kubernetes Work API
Contributions:2 releases, 130 reviews, 61 commits in 2 months
apikubernetesazure
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