A Year as a Kakao Ad Platform Developer: Adapting to a Horizontal Culture and Migrating to Kubernetes

Backend developer 'hero', a former StarCraft pro gamer, is responsible for the ad common billing platform in the Ad Platform Team of Kakao's Ad Development Division. He shared his experience adapting to the organization's horizontal culture, including learning the business domain through pair programming and the transparent decision-making process via the internal 'Agit'. He also cited as technical achievements the application of Kubernetes, a technology he was personally interested in, to an internal infrastructure migration project to establish a deployment process, and reducing the learning curve through patch notes and guides from data source experts. He also shared a case where he resolved requirements for sending batch execution results through mob programming with team members.