Yongkook(Alex) Kim is an Open Source Developer Advocate at IBM Research. He started working for IBM Poughkeepsie in 2001 as a mainframe crypto processor designer and I/O hardware engineer for 6 years. Alex then moved to Systems Technical Sales team helping Wall Street customers with IBM Z technology until end of 2013. Since 2014, he was part of IBM's Platinum business partner Vicom Infinity in NY, where he worked with many clients and partners in various verticals using IBM Systems, Software and Cloud solutions.
While at Vicom Infinity, he led a development team which created secure voice assistant device called VIVA, utilizing IBM Hyper Protect services and IBM Watson. He also has been serving Linux Foundation's Open Mainframe Project from its inception and recently working with an open source incubation project called ZEBRA.
Alex is passionate about new technologies that help enterprise customers and society.
Twitter: @likepunk
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yongkook/