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Redlands, California, United States

• Kubernetes Deployment Automation: Led R&D and PoC efforts to automate Kubernetes cluster(EKS, RKE2) deployment, scaling, and maintenance on Rancher, enhancing deployment for multiple teams.
• Automated Unit Test CI/CD Framework: Developed and integrated automated unit test frameworks into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, improving deployment reliability and reducing manual efforts.
• AWS Identity Automation: Achieved 90% of reduction in AWS identity access provisioning time by automating workflows with AWS Identity API, Azure Entra API, and ServiceNow.
• EKS Deployment: Successfully deployed and managed EKS applications using Helm, GitHub Actions, and Docker; created detailed runbooks and sample apps to ensure standardized deployment practices.
• AI-driven Solutions: Finalist in the largest GIS hackathon; developed an AI-driven real-time asset tracking solution using the YOLO model and ArcGIS Maps to optimize emergency response.

Engineering Department

Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea

• Container Deployment Automation: Achieved a 95% reduction in AWS EKS deployment time (from 3 days to 15 minutes) by automating CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Helm Charts.
• Cloud Resource Cost Optimization: Reduced cloud costs by 5% by developing a Go-based CMDB using AWS Lambda and GitHub Actions, integrating AWS Resource Groups, Kubernetes API, AWS Config, AWS CloudWatch, and Kubecost.
• Container Orchestration: Managed microservices deployments, version updates, and on-call incidents within AWS EKS using ArgoCD and Karpenter, leveraging monitoring tools like Datadog, AWS CloudWatch, Slack, and.
• Cloud Resource Provisioning: Provisioned and managed AWS resources for 100+ microservices using Terraform.
• Cloud Security: Streamlined identity workflows and policies for ArgoCD, GitHub, Datadog, and Jenkins with AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory, AWS IAM Identity Center, and AWS Organizations, achieving ISMS-P.
• Password Self-Service: Implemented Keycloak for password self-service into AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory using AWS SNS, reducing password reset requests by 90% and cutting user creation costs by 50%.

Seoul, South Korea

• Enhanced multi-cloud data integration for the Linux Foundation's 'CloudForet' platform by developing Python collectors for AWS Kinesis and Alibaba Cloud ECS, leveraging boto3 API.
• Contributed to rapid development cycles and code quality through Agile sprints and peer reviews.

Seoul, South Korea

• Contributed to the NiFi custom processors project, extracting content and MIME types to enhance data processing capabilities.
• Participated in Samsung Display's real-time streaming data pipeline (CDC+ETL) BMT, facilitating the transfer of DBMS data (Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server) and logs (text files) to Postgres, HIVE, and HDFS.
• Built PoC server infrastructure and supported the case-open for a CDC-based real-time data ingestion tool, utilizing Kafka, Spark, MongoDB, ELK, Hadoop, Grafana, Prometheus, and other components.
• Managed the technical blog for a global data replication platform, providing insights and updates on the latest developments.
• Acted as a technical interpreter for a big genomic data analysis project at KOBIC (Korea Bio-information Center), improving replication efficiency between HDFS and Lustre clusters.
• Developed a company promotional website using GatsbyJS and managed the technical blog for a global data replication platform.

Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea

• Trained non-technical personnel at SK Holdings C&C on cloud concepts, including Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS development tools, and Azure compute services.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering, 3.9/4.5

Activities and Societies: COMMA(information system engineering studying club)

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Engineering, 6

Songsil University is an university where Korea's First Computer Science Department was created. SSU is very well-known for IT department..

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, 9

Activities and Societies: I spent a lot of my free time as a member of the "CSUF Adventure Club" and learnt a healthy work life.

High School Diploma, Science

Activities and Societies: I spent a lot of my free time as a member of the 'PaekAm Science Club' experimenting with interesting.