Kim Kao

Work with me

I partner with leaders and their teams who are modernizing, scaling, or untangling complex domains. I coordinate the stakeholders, facilitate the conversation to the real problem, and guide teams to the right design — building the capability inside your organization, not just handing over a diagram.

How I can help

Architecture Advisory

A trusted sounding board for leaders and their teams on the decisions that are hard to reverse — modernization strategy, bounded contexts, resilience, and cloud trade-offs. I help you frame the real problem before committing to a design.

Facilitation & Discovery

Facilitated sessions that put business and engineering in one room and surface the real problem — Event Storming, Domain Storytelling, Impact & Wardley Mapping. Alignment first, so the architecture that follows is the right one.

Modernization Reviews

A clear-eyed read on a legacy system and a pragmatic, sequenced path forward that your teams can actually execute — no big-bang rewrite, no pretending it’s a greenfield.

Talks & Team Sessions

Keynotes and internal sessions that move a room — from executives who need the strategic case to engineers who want the how. Continuous architecture, socio-technical design, and leading modernization.

Get in touch

Tell me a little about your context and what you’re trying to change.

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Engagements are subject to availability.