About

I’m Kim Kao — a Solutions Architecture manager at AWS and a co-founder of the DDD Taiwan community. My work is helping teams evolve their architecture as their business actually changes.

What I believe

Architecture is not a one-off technical decision — it’s a continuous, socio-technical activity. The hard part is rarely which technology to pick; it’s making and governing architectural decisions over time, across incomplete information and competing stakeholder viewpoints. Understanding the problem first is usually the faster route to solving it.

Focus areas

• Continuous Architecture
• Domain-Driven Design, Event Storming, Domain Storytelling
• Socio-Technical Architecture & design
• Application modernization & cloud-native on AWS
• Multi-region resilience & disaster recovery
• GenAI / Agentic AI on AWS

Talks & interviews

• AWS re:Invent 2023 — Distributed system design (BOA-309)
• VirtualDDD interview — “They Knew the Answer Before They Understood the Problem”
• Agile Summit Taiwan 2023 — The Value Flywheel Effect
• JCConf 2023 — Refactoring to Serverless
• DDD Taiwan Conference 2021 — Continuous Architecture: Embracing Multiple Viewpoints

Books, reviews & forewords

• Translator — Domain-Driven Design (Eric Evans), 15th Anniversary — Traditional Chinese translation team
• Reviewer — Domain Storytelling — technical reviewer
• Foreword — Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures on AWS — foreword
• Foreword — SRE & Internal Developer Platform guide — foreword
• Foreword — 解構領域驅動設計 (Deconstructing DDD) — foreword

Community

Co-founder of the DDD Taiwan community (since 2018). My open-source work has earned 700+ community stars on GitHub, including an AWS cloud-native microservices sample with 300+ stars.