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Andrew Kim

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I’m Andrew Kim, a Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer with 10 years of experience building internal developer platforms, cloud foundations, and reliable production delivery systems—primarily across AWS, Kubernetes, and…

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I’m Andrew Kim, a Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer with 10 years of experience building internal developer platforms, cloud foundations, and reliable production delivery systems—primarily across AWS, Kubernetes, and GitOps-style workflows. I enjoy designing secure, standardized infrastructure-as-code that helps engineering teams move faster without compromising governance, observability, or reliability.

In my recent roles, I’ve supported dozens of engineering teams by building multi-account AWS cloud foundations (including automation for account setup, security guardrails, centralized logging, and regional governance). I’ve also operated and scaled multiple EKS clusters at high availability, led production observability practices with SLI/SLOs and alerting, and drove FinOps improvements—reducing monthly infrastructure spend while maintaining uptime. I’m a strong believer in end-to-end ownership, automation, and incident readiness.

  • 10 years' experience
  • Joined October 2026

Industry experience

  • Computers & Electronics
  • Government
  • Software & Internet
  • Telecommunications
  • Professional Services

Work experience

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - SDE III · Amazon Web Services (AWS) EU & UK Multi-Account Cloud Foundation & Data Residency PlatformMar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

Designed and operated a multi-account AWS cloud foundation for 50+ engineering teams and AWS accounts across EU and UK environments, using AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Account Factory (Terraform), IAM Identity Center, centralized logging, and automated guardrails. Built self-service account and environment provisioning with Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS Step Functions, Lambda, and Python, reducing setup time from 1–2 days to under 4 hours. Implemented regional governance with AWS Control Tower, Service Control Policies, governed regions, and region deny controls to prevent out-of-region workloads and data. Developed reusable platform modules for networking (VPCs), IAM roles, KMS keys, EKS environments, databases, security baselines, centralized logging, and connectivity to standardize paved roads for application teams. Automated account baseline validation and configuration reconciliation to detect configuration drift and ensure inherited security, networking, logging, and regi

Senior DevOps Engineer · CloudflareJun 2019 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Built and operated infrastructure enabling Cloudflare’s EU regional services and data localization capabilities, allowing customer traffic to benefit from the global network while restricting sensitive layer-7 processing to approved European locations. Automated regional edge and control-plane configuration using Terraform, Cloudflare APIs, Python, and Go with version-controlled workflows including validation, peer review, staged rollouts, and rollback procedures. Supported routing architectures using Anycast, DNS, TLS, CDN, WAF, DDoS protection, and load balancing, separating global traffic protection from region-specific application-layer processing. Developed automated validation for regional configuration, certificate state, DNS records, routing policies, and infrastructure drift to reduce the risk of incorrect changes propagating to production edge locations. Built dashboards and alerts with Prometheus/Grafana and centralized logging to monitor regional traffic processing, TLS f

Developer Productivity & Release Automation Platform (DevOps Engineer) · GitHubAug 2016 – May 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Built and standardized CI/CD infrastructure supporting 25+ engineering teams across 100+ repositories, creating reusable build/test/artifact/deployment workflows for Ruby, Node.js, Python, and Java services. Developed shared Jenkins pipeline libraries and Docker-based build environments to reduce duplicated CI configuration while preserving language-specific testing and packaging requirements. Extended deployment automation around Hubot and internal services with release queues, environment validation, artifact promotion, deployment status tracking, rollback workflows, and engineering notifications. Built GitHub webhook and API integrations for pull requests, commit statuses, releases, approvals, and deployment events to provide end-to-end visibility into software delivery. Established repository and release standards using branch protection, required checks, CODEOWNERS, release tags, deployment approvals, and reusable templates to improve consistency across engineering teams. Implemen

Education

Bachelor of Science in Economics and Communication · University of California2010 – 2014

Certifications and awards

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate2023 – 2026
Project Management Professional (PMP) - Project Management Institute2024 – 2026
CompTIA Network Security Professional (CNSP)2024 – 2026
Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes (credential ID 220-055-560)2024 – 2026

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