Kim Leung

Kim Leung leads infrastructure, foundations, and compute engineering at Hex, scaling its AWS environment and managing cloud costs and commitments. Earlier, he published hands-on tutorials on building Alexa voice applications with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB.

Career

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Based in: New York City
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Hex

Engineering Lead, Infrastructure + Foundations + Compute
Mar 2026 — Present
New York, United States
Scales Hex’s AWS infrastructure and manages cloud cost efficiency, Reserved Instance and Savings Plan commitments, and financial planning.
Engineering Lead, Infrastructure + Foundations
Apr 2025 — Mar 2026
New York, United States
Engineering Lead, Infrastructure
Jan 2023 — Apr 2025
New York, United States

Catalyst Software

Engineering Manager, Infrastructure + Data Platform
Jun 2022 — Nov 2022
New York, United States
Engineering Manager, Infrastructure
Jul 2021 — Jun 2022
New York City, New York, United States
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Jan 2021 — Jun 2021
New York City, New York, United States
Infrastructure Engineer
May 2019 — Jan 2021
New York City, New York, United States

Contently

DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer
Nov 2018 — May 2019
New York City, New York, United States
Full Stack Engineer
Sep 2016 — Nov 2018
New York City, New York, United States
Frontend Engineer
Jan 2016 — Sep 2016
New York City, New York, United States

Fullstack Academy

New York University

Master's studies

New York University

Bachelor's studies in mathematics

Products & media

archera.ai

How Hex achieved 98% RI and Savings Plan coverage on AWS

Kim explains how Hex combines AWS commitment coverage, transparent pricing, and automation to scale infrastructure while reducing manual cost planning.

medium.com

Implementing an Alexa Skill with Lambda and DynamoDB

A step-by-step tutorial connecting an Alexa voice skill to an AWS Lambda function and a DynamoDB table.

archera.ai

The value of time-to-savings in cloud infrastructure engineering

Discusses how automated AWS commitment management helps Hex reduce manual planning and give its engineering team more time.

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Kim Leung

Hex

Engineering Lead, Infrastructure + Foundations + Compute

Engineering Lead, Infrastructure + Foundations

Engineering Lead, Infrastructure

Catalyst Software

Engineering Manager, Infrastructure + Data Platform

Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Infrastructure Engineer

Contently

DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer

Full Stack Engineer

Frontend Engineer

Fullstack Academy

New York University

New York University

Products & media

How Hex achieved 98% RI and Savings Plan coverage on AWS

Implementing an Alexa Skill with Lambda and DynamoDB

The value of time-to-savings in cloud infrastructure engineering

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