About me
Yongkook (Alex) is an OSS advocate, and a tech leader with 25+ years in R&D and IT architecture. He started as a security chip engineer at IBM Poughkeepsie, then worked as an enterprise IT architect for financial clients like Morgan Stanley and DTCC. Alex co-founded the Linux Foundation's Open Mainframe Project, led a key open-source initiative. As CTO of IBM's Worldwide Samsung Strategic Partnership, he drives innovation in AI, cloud, and hardware collaborations between IBM and Samsung.