Karn Wong, Platform engineer | Technical Leadership | HashiCorp Ambassador | AWS & GCP 2X Certified
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SKILLS
Languages: Bash, Go, HCL, Python, Rust
Cloud Native: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, K3S, Harbor, Grafana, Prometheus, Minio, MLflow
DevOps: Caddy, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Proxmox, Authentik, Infracost, New Relic
Cloud: AWS, GCP, Digital Ocean, Cloudflare, Vercel
EXPERIENCE
Platform Team Lead - Data Cafe (Thailand) 2024-01-03 - 2024-11-30
  • Lead a team of three engineers, educate and support data science team to achieve faster delivery
  • Collaborate with pre-sales and data science team to ensure the feasibility of incoming projects
  • Improve day-to-day operations within the consulting team to speed up processes
  • Within 8 months since onboarding, managed to have the data science team who previously exclusively develop on Google Colab / Vertex Notebook do code versioning, pull requests, and python venv (via poetry). More than 30+ pull requests have been made during this period
  • Oversee technical direction and delivery for projects. This involves model development (MLOps) and application deployment (DevOps), while utilizing a common foundational blocks to reduce implementation overhead (platform engineering)
Head of Platform Engineering - Baania 2018-04-01 - 2023-12-28
  • Lead a team of three engineers, building and maintaining infrastructure for five products, centralized data platform and MLOps platform.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product and data team to align the platform directions that satisfy all parties
  • Use Terraform with Infracost to assess infrastructure cost to prune unused/underutilized resources, in turn reduce 33% of cloud cost per month (FinOps)
  • Design and implement end-to-end cloud-native application deployment (Terraform for infra/secrets, Helm for application deployment, GitHub Actions for CI/CD, Kubernetes for container orchestration)
  • Lead a major core product refactoring across ops, engineering and data (data engineering, data science and machine learning engineering). Affected areas: data pipelines, model training pipelines, real-time inference endpoints, database performance optimization, deployment pipelines, local development workflow
  • Lead a cloud migration from AWS to GCP (AWS ECS to GCP GKE)
PROJECTS
  • 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
  • Personal documentation website on various topics
nix
  • A cross-platform setup script that works with both Linux and Mac
  • pgcli wrapper to connect to PostgreSQL database specified in db.yaml. Proxy/tunnel connection is automatically created and killed when pgcli is exited
  • Measure latency, RPS and CPU & memory utilization for a hello world api in various languages
  • Measure overheads incurred from using C FFI in various languages
  • Run spark jobs on kubernetes, which can be used both locally and on production environment
VOLUNTEERING
DevOps, SRE & Infrastructure Discord - Frequent Contributor 2021 - Present
CERTIFICATES
Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer
Google Cloud Platform
HashiCorp Ambassador 2024
HashiCorp
AWS Community Builder 2024
AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud Platform
EDUCATION
Rangsit University 2015 - 2018
Bachelor - Information and Communication Technology
INTERESTS
Humanities [ Anthropology , Linguistics , Psychology , Sociology ] , Music [ Symphonic Heavy Metal , Power Metal , Folk Metal , Classical Crossover , Operatic Pop ] , Technology [ Platform Engineering , DevX , Kubernetes , DevOps / DataOps / MLOps , Scaling & Optimization ]