Keng-Tai Ko

About Keng-Tai Ko

Seasoned engineering leader with demonstrated excellence leading Enterprise-wide initiatives. Built and led a globally distributed 50+ people organization with $10M+ annual operating budget. Drastically improved enterprise platform monitoring, observability, and analytics, resulting in a 99.95+% successful task rate. Ensured a major cloud security platform could operate at scale to automatically evaluate, and remediate if required, millions of cloud resources across thousands of unique AWS accounts. Modernized platforms for cloud spend efficiency, saving millions of dollars per year. Led shift-left initiative to reduce risk and cost by blocking misconfigured/insecure cloud resources from deployment. Core competencies include: Digital Transformation | Distributed Systems | Serverless Solutions | AWS Cloud | Cloud Native | Cloud Security & Compliance | Cybersecurity | Cloud Engineering & Optimizations | Database Design & Management | Global Scale Deployment | AI/GenAI/ML | Open-Source Development | Program/Project Management | Platform Observability & Scalability | Risk Assessment and Mitigation | Cloud Data Platforms | Software Development Lifecycle | Agile Methodology/SCRUM | Strategic Planning | Vendor/Stakeholder Engagements | Cross-Functional Collaboration | Strategic Customer Engagements.

Experience

1. Senior Director - Enterprise Architecture

   Fannie Mae

   Sep 2023 — Present · Reston, VA, US

   Serving in Fannie Mae’s Enterprise Architecture senior leadership team, responsible for establishing and maintaining standards and processes to monitor and govern enterprise architecture compliance. Leading a talented Cloud DevOps platform team in providing architecture process automations, architecture compliance monitoring and reporting, as well as delivering transparency and self-service analytics, for the application teams, architecture communities, technology and business leaders, risk managers, and audits.* Developed and continuously enhancing a cloud-native platform that serves as the enterprise architecture system-of-records for Fannie Mae.* Chartered and guided a small team in developing Architecture Copilot that explored and utilized GenAI/LLM/RAG technologies.* In partnership with CICD Engineering, developed and released capabilities that automatically generate architecture compliant IaC (Infrastructure-as-code) files that accelerate time-to-market for application teams.* In collaboration with FinOps Engineering and Finance, designed, developed, and continuously improving cloud costs/usages tools that are serving as the system of truth for the company’s Showback/Chargeback and cloud cost optimization FinOps journey.

Education

• University of Maryland, College Park

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

• University of Maryland, College Park

  Ph.D., Computer Science

• National Taiwan University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Skills

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Sdlc
• Sales Enablement
• Virtualization
• Integration
• Customer Engagement
• Technical Marketing
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Cloud Computing Iaas
• Systems Engineering
• Architecture
• Server Architecture
• Product Management
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Cross Functional Team Building
• Storage
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Performance Engineering
• Unix
• Web Services
• Project Management
• Paas
• Algorithms
• Infrastructure
• Management
• Linux
• Scalability
• Databases
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• System Architecture
• Java
• Leadership
• Solaris
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• Software Project Management
• Architectures
• Servers