Karn Wong

Independent Consultant | HashiCorp Ambassador | AWS Community Builder

Work

Freelance

Independent Consultant
– Present
  • Infra / DevOps / Data Engineering / MLOps / Architecture consulting

MFEC

Cloud Automation and Optimization Consultant
  • Reduce manual & routine workloads via automation

Data Cafe Company Limited

Platform Team Lead
  • Upskill data science team to adopt software engineering practices

Baania

Head of Platform Engineering
  • Design, write and optimize most of the infrastructure, platform, pipelines (ci/cd + data / ML) and app workloads for 5 products

Freelance

IT Support & SysAdmin

Volunteer

DevOps, SRE & Infrastructure Discord

Frequent Contributor
– Present

Data Engineer Thailand

Frequent Contributor
– Present

Data Engineer Cafe

Frequent Contributor
– Present

Data Engineering Discord

Moderator & Frequent Contributor
– Present

Data Science Discord

Frequent Contributor
– Present

Education

Rangsit University

Information and Communication Technology

Bachelor

Projects

self-hosted

devops
  • Alternative / self-hosted version for popular subscription services: Netflix, Spotify, LastPass, Trello, Dropbox, NordVPN, etc

  • Workloads are managed via Docker Compose and Helm

  • Terraform for managing Cloudflare and Kubernetes

  • Caddy for reverse-proxy

  • SSO via Authentik

  • docker
  • kubernetes
  • helm
  • terraform
  • sso

docs

devops
  • Personal documentation website on various topics

  • documentation
  • knowledge base
  • vitepress

nix

devops
  • A cross-platform setup script that works with both Linux and Mac

  • Nix
  • environment
  • dotfiles
  • package manager

pgconn

devops
  • pgcli wrapper to connect to PostgreSQL database specified in db.yaml. Proxy/tunnel connection is automatically created and killed when pgcli is exited

  • postgres
  • ssh tunneling
  • cli

swissknife

utilities
  • Various system utilities, suitable for system administrator and devops professionals

  • go
  • devops
  • system administration

Calculator

utilities
  • Various calculators, mostly for FinOps

  • vue
  • finops

NATs Demo

demo
  • A NATs demo to measure streaming throughput

  • streaming

Garmin QRCode

utilities
  • A garmin watch app to display qr code

  • garmin
  • app

Dataframe Frameworks Showdown

data
  • Benchmark performance between duckdb, polars and spark. In addition to runtime, RAM usage is also provided

  • duckdb
  • polars
  • spark
  • dataframe
  • data engineering

Certificates

Publications

Using Classification Technique for Customer Relationship Management based on Thai Social Media Data

Published by ICCAE

Skills

Languages

  • Bash
  • Go
  • HCL
  • Python
  • Rust

Cloud

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Digital Ocean
  • Cloudflare
  • Vercel

Ops

  • DevOps
  • DataOps
  • MLOps
  • Platform Engineering
  • DevX
  • Kubernetes
  • IaC
  • Scaling & Optimization

Data / ML

  • Data Engineering
  • Machine Learning Engineering
  • Spark
  • NLP
  • GIS

Interests

Humanities

  • Anthropology
  • Linguistics
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

Music

  • Symphonic Heavy Metal
  • Power Metal
  • Folk Metal
  • Classical Crossover
  • Operatic Pop