Building the Next Generation Private Cloud

Sung Whan Moon

President & COO

Sung Whan Moon has been with Samsung Electronics for 18 years. Before joining Joyent he managed enterprise solutions partnerships and innovation development efforts, and led the Knox Product Management team. He has held other management roles in the Knox team, including developer team lead, technical project manager, and Knox government security certification program manager.

Sung Whan holds a Ph.D degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in Ithaca.

JaeKwan Kim

CFO

JaeKwan brings over two decades of invaluable experience at Samsung. Before his tenure at SRA, he played a pivotal role in the Business Strategy Group at SEC Head Quarter.

Prior to this, he spearheaded Chinese TV Marketing and Sales Management for Regional Planning Group at Samsung Electronics. JaeKwan attained a Bachelor of Economics degree from Kyungpook National University in Republic of Korea.

Sean Johnson

Chief of Staff

Sean has spent over 12 years at Joyent in numerous management roles focused on our customers and market execution. Prior to Chief of Staff, Sean led our Commerrcial Group, having previously served in sales, marketing, product and customer experience leadership roles. Prior to Joyent, Sean served 7 years at Dell with enterprise sales roles covering a range of territories and infrastructure solutions.

Sean attended Vanderbilt University and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.

Seong-Kook Shin

Director of Engineering

Seong-Kook began his career as a Software Development Engineer at Samsung Electronics. He started as an embedded software developer then transitioned to a server-side Cloud Software Developer, where he designed and implemented several key services such as Samsung OpenAPI (for the InternetTV), Samsung Cloud Application Platform (PaaS), and Samsung Voice Recognition Service (a.k.a. SVoice). His specialties are designing the architecture for large-scale services, and ensuring service stability. Seong-Kook earned his Bachelor’s of Computer Engineering & Computer Science from Hongik University.

Casey Bisson

Head of Product Management

Casey’s expertise ranges from hands-on engineer to corporate officer who has experience building product organizations from scratch. Casey has 15 years of experience as an engineering and product leader in consumer and B2B SaaS, including hyperscale public cloud IaaS, where he helped drive a devops revolution for container infrastructure and continuous delivery. Casey has worked with open-source communities throughout his career and demonstrated continued focus on making tools and systems usable. Before joining Joyent in 2023, Casey worked at Docker, where he led go-to-market efforts for the company’s container development products used by over 50 thousand companies and 20 million developers monthly.

Chris Yang

Head of Operations and Support

Chris brings to Joyent over 28 years of technical and operational management experience. As Head of Operations and Support, Chris leads the teams responsible for support services and back-end systems. Before joining the Joyent Management Team, Chris gained experience working in various industries, including cloud, manufacturing, SaaS, and FinTech organizations.

Wyatt Preul

Director of Development

Wyatt holds a bachelor's degree from Monmouth College and began his career as a Software Engineer. He co-authored a couple of Wrox books for Community Server, which is a product he helped build. During his time at Telligent he led their initial mobile development and application security teams. Later, he joined Walmart Labs where he helped create the hapi.js framework as well as co-authored a hapi.js book. At Walmart, he led a team that developed a mobile check-in service and also received recognition for an early prototype of an uber delivery integration. He co-authored another book, this time on the hapi.js framework. Wyatt joined the product team in 2016 serving many development and management roles, currently heading up software development.

Kartheek Kondapalli

Head of PMO

Kartheek heads the Program Management Office and is responsible for Delivery, Process Optimization and Risk Mitigation for various initiatives at Joyent. With 16+ years of extensive experience spanning Cloud, Wireless, and Hi-Tech sectors, he began his journey as a Developer specializing in 2.5G and 3G RLC/MAC algorithms before transitioning into Product and Program Management roles.

Kartheek holds an MBA from Cornell University and a bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from JNTU, India.

Richard Chung

Head of Datacenter Operations

Richard brings over 20 years of technical experience in Cloud Data Center and Telecommunications fields. Beginning his career by building Data Centers from the ground up, he later led key projects at Lumen, formerly Level 3 communications, ensuring successful consolidations for the organization's multiple mergers and acquisitions. At Joyent, Richard brings extensive leadership and operational excellence. Committed to delivering uninterrupted Data Center services, he ensures high availability for internal customers and mobile users worldwide. His expertise in Cloud Infrastructure ensures optimal performance across Data Center Engineering and Operations.