Summary
Young Kim is a founder and Kubernetes-native platform engineer with 8+ years of experience designing scalable, secure, and observable systems from infrastructure to application. As the creator of Service Foundry, he builds turnkey Kubernetes platforms that combine OpenTelemetry observability, Keycloak-based authentication, Helm-driven runtimes, and Terraform IaC to accelerate cloud-native delivery. His background spans solution architecture, big data (Spark, Kafka), and full-stack development in Java/Scala/Node, honed through roles at iClinic and Oracle where he led platform modernizations and developer enablement. He brings hands-on expertise in GitOps/MLOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Helm chart development, plus practical security and SSO integrations for enterprise workloads. Based in Vancouver, he blends deep systems engineering with a product-minded founder’s perspective, often packaging complex infra patterns into repeatable platforms. An uncommon strength: he pairs legacy enterprise modernization experience with modern cloud-native tooling, easing migration of monoliths to observable, automated Kubernetes runtimes.
7 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Jeonbuk National University
Korean, English