Ken Lee

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT · CLICKHOUSE · SEOUL

Ken Lee

A result-oriented problem solver working across the extended database ecosystem. Right now I am building out the AI stack end to end — analytics, GPU compute, and LLMOps — and publishing what I verify as hands-on labs.

Now
ClickHouse
Before
Imply · Vertica · Oracle
Runs
clickhouse.kr
Based
Seoul, South Korea
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Experience

  1. ClickHouse

    Oct 2025 — Present

    Solutions Architect · Seoul

    First Solutions Architect based in South Korea, building the technical strategy for market entry. I write and run clickhouse.kr, a Korean-language ClickHouse knowledge hub, and host local meetups.

  2. Imply

    Sep 2022 — Oct 2025

    Senior Customer Architect · Senior Sales Engineer

    First sales engineering hire for East Asia. Led technical presales, post-sales, and professional services for Asia Pacific — the company's least-churn region for Druid — and delivered the first production reference for Imply Lumi.

  3. Micro Focus — Vertica

    May 2018 — Sep 2022

    Senior Solutions Architect, APJ · Expert APJ Presales

    Owned the technical sales cycle across Asia Pacific and Japan: Eon mode, Kubernetes deployment, complex data types, and machine learning workloads. Competitive displacements against Exadata, Teradata, Redshift, BigQuery, and Snowflake.

  4. Oracle

    Jan 2013 — May 2018

    Senior Database & Cloud Architect · Database Technical Consultant

    Worldwide technical consulting and ISV business development across OCI, Exadata, Autonomous Database, TimesTen, and MySQL, after high-tech manufacturing consulting for the Samsung conglomerate. Member of Server Technology Partnership Database Product Management in 2017.

  5. NexChal

    Jul 2008 — May 2011

    Software Developer

    ERP product development for the electric industry in Java, server-side C, and Oracle Database.

Selected work

ClickHouse Hands-On Labs

Feature labs, Cloud integrations, and benchmarks — published as clickhouse.kr.

clickhouse.kr Source

Runpod Hands-On Labs

Serverless workers, GPU pods, and Terraform — every finding verified by running it.

View labs Source

LLMOps in a Box

Self-hosted serving, gateway, chat UI, and observability — laptop to cluster.

Workshop Source

TPC-DS Scripts

Schemas, 103 queries, and runners across five engines, with provenance per file.

Docs Source

Quantum Notes

Korean notes on quantum computing — principles, hardware, error correction, industry.

Read Source

LET'S CONNECT

Building an AI stack — analytics, GPU, or LLMOps?

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