Yongkook(Alex) Kim is an IBM Z mainframe engineer/architect. Yongkook started career as a chip design engineer for IBM Z Crypto HW at IBM Poughkeepsie in 2001. He's been a technical advisor for IBM Z clients in NY Metro area for 13 years and recently started new role as IBM Research Open Source Advocate. He is also serving as a  team lead for OSS incubation project Zebra under Linux Foundation's Open Mainframe Project ZOWE.