name: Kim Kao (humank)
role: Manager, Solutions Architecture @ AWS
identity:
- Leading SA teams to help customers architect on AWS
- Hands-on DDD Practitioner & Workshop Facilitator
- Architect Elevator rider — from Penthouse to Engine Room
industries: [ Financial Services, Retail, Public Sector ]
focus:
- Domain-Driven Design on Cloud (AWS)
- Event Storming & Event-Driven Architecture
- CQRS / Event Sourcing Patterns
- Serverless & Cloud-Native Solutions
- Multi-Region Resilience & Disaster Recovery
- Rozanski & Woods — Viewpoints & Perspectives
community:
- Contributor to aws-samples (316+ ⭐)
- DDD practitioners workshop adopted globally
passion:
- Bridging business strategy with technical execution
- Baseball & Softball ⚾
motto: "Ride the Architect Elevator — model the domain, not the database."I don't just reference the Architect Elevator — I live it. Every day I shift between business strategy and hands-on implementation, translating customer needs into architecture decisions that actually ship.
🏢 PENTHOUSE — Business & Stakeholder Alignment Customer discovery · Business case · ROI · Compliance · Executive communication
📊 UPPER FLOORS — Enterprise Architecture Rozanski & Woods Viewpoints & Perspectives · ADRs · Technology strategy Industries: Financial Services · Retail · Public Sector
🎯 MIDDLE FLOORS — Solution Architecture DDD · Event Storming · Domain Storytelling · Context Mapping CQRS · Event Sourcing · Saga · Anti-Corruption Layer
🔧 LOWER FLOORS — Specialist Architecture Software · Networking · Security · RDBMS · NoSQL · Analytics · GenAI Cross-domain integration to ensure end-to-end delivery
⚙️ ENGINE ROOM — Build & Ship AWS CDK · Serverless · EKS/ECS · Multi-Region Resilience Bedrock · Agentic AI · CI/CD
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7 Viewpoints + 8 Perspectives |
Financial Services · Retail · Public Sector |
60+ repos · 700+ community ⭐ |
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☁️ Designing Cloud Native Microservices on AWS ⭐ 316 · |
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Enterprise-grade platform that automates COBOL-to-Java/DDD transformation using generative AI. Orchestrates 9 specialized AI agents across 3 squads (Mainframe Modernization, Infrastructure, Resilience & Ops) through an 8-phase pipeline — from Domain Storytelling extraction to Canary deployment.
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A living example of the Architect Elevator in action — Rozanski & Woods methodology (7 Viewpoints + 8 Perspectives), DDD with 13 bounded contexts, and Active-Active multi-region on AWS. Not a demo — a blueprint.
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Comprehensive Event Storming workshop covering DDD strategic & tactical design, Wardley Maps, Impact Mapping, Bounded Context Canvas, and AWS Serverless deployment.
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DDD tactical patterns with Quarkus, focusing on cross-Bounded Context communication via external Aggregate Roots.
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Multi-region DR architecture using API Gateway private integration, VPCLink, and Route 53 for resilient backend protection.
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Step-by-step guide for running Java Spring applications on AWS Fargate with ECS and ECR.
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A design tool mapping EventStorming Level 3 artifacts into DDD tactical design objects.
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