Ivan (이반) Porta

Founder of Todea | Cloud-Native Platform Engineering

I've loved technology ever since I was a kid. My curiosity led me to earn advanced certifications in cloud computing and C# programming from MIT and UCSD. I also keep learning on my own about the cloud-native ecosystem.

I've had a global and varied career, working with clients like Barclays and Microsoft, as well as many others in places from the United States to Saudi Arabia. I've experienced different work cultures in Australia, the Czech Republic, Italy, the UK, and now South Korea. There, I founded Todea (토데아 주식회사), a cloud-native engineering consultancy in Seoul, and I currently work as a Customer Success Engineer (APAC) at Buoyant.

Outside of work, I'm active in the cloud-native developer community. I write articles, answer questions on StackOverflow, and host live workshops and keynote talks for people around the world. I cover topics like Kubernetes, platform engineering, observability, GitOps, FinOps, and cloud-native operations, sharing my work in English, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese.