Young Kim
Director, Head Of NG-OSS Tech Lab at SK Telecom
Seoul Incheon Metropolitan Area South Korea
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Top SchoolYoung Kim is an accomplished telecommunications and software leader with 18 years of experience driving OSS transformation and cloud-native network management at SK Telecom, where he leads the NG-OSS Tech Lab and commercialized the TANGO platform for 5G, IoT, VNF assurance and automation. He combines deep academic grounding—a PhD in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications—with hands-on expertise in network analytics, AI-driven automation, SDN/SON, and strategic partnerships to deliver scalable carrier-grade solutions. Earlier roles at LG-Ericsson, LG-Nortel and LG Electronics saw him lead R&D teams in mobile protocols, small cells, MPLS and switching systems, giving him end-to-end familiarity from protocol stacks to operations. An active contributor to Apache Bigtop, he has practical experience packaging and deploying big-data components like Hive and Spark to support infrastructure automation. Colleagues describe him as a systems thinker who bridges research, product and operations to turn complex telecom requirements into operationalized platforms. Based in the Seoul–Incheon area, he focuses on evolving OSS toward AI-enabled, automated network operations.
18 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at 고려대학교 / Korea University
Github Skills (20)
spark10
packaging10
big-data10
build-system10
hadoop10
hive10
flume9
phoenix-framework9
phoenix-liveview9
apache-phoenix9
puppet8
javas8
java8
puppeteer8
rpm7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/bigtop
May 2014 - Nov 2019
Bigtop is an Apache Foundation project for Infrastructure Engineers and Data Scientists looking for comprehensive packaging, testing, and configuration of the leading open source big data components.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Data Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Data EngineerContributions:108 commits, 82 PRs, 52 comments in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Young primarily contributed to the build, packaging, and deployment aspects of the Apache Bigtop project, focusing on integrating and upgrading various big data components. Their contributions included fixing build targets for specific components like Hive and Spark. They also addressed infrastructure and packaging issues, particularly related to upgrades of Flume, Spark, Phoenix, and Hive.
javaapachebig-databigtop
youngwookim/presto
Nov 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:71 pushes, 38 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 2 months
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