Tony S. Kim

data architect · enterprise data layer, semantic & spatial-temporal mesh

i design the raw data structures, schemas, and meaning that everything else is built on.

long beach, california

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I spent five years underwater on a fast-attack submarine, tracking things nobody could see with sonar data that could not afford to be wrong. That is where I learned the job I do now: entities, position, time, and lineage — or it did not happen.

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Today I am a data architect in defense tech. I design the layer most teams skip — the raw structures, schemas, and metadata everything else is built on — most recently defining a quality data foundation for an autonomous-systems defense company on Palantir Foundry.

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Off the clock: married, based in Long Beach, and unreasonably fond of Evangelion, Pokemon, and interfaces that make small sounds. This site has all three.

company names are redacted here — the resume pdf has the full record.

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Costa Mesa, CA · Autonomous defense systems
Quality Intelligence Engineer — Data Architecture
Contract · Apr 2026 — present · 4m
what happened here
  • Defined the data foundation for the Quality and Manufacturing organizations on Palantir Foundry — raw object types, relationships, and metadata that make every record self-describing and traceable to source.
  • Established build-state and unique-part-vs-unit-count conventions at the schema level so the org could trust its counts in real time through a governed semantic layer.
  • Built a QMS knowledge base and a verified-procedure Q&A agent on curated, governed datasets.
  • Defined event-driven integration and CDC standards (event schemas, ordering, replay, error handling) feeding a governed data lake.
  • Authored metadata, cataloging, and ABAC-style access standards for discoverable, versioned, securely shared data products.
Palantir FoundryOntologyCDCABACSemantic Layer

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Torrance, CA · Directed-energy defense
Supplier Commodities Specialist — Data Architecture & Engineering
Full-time · May 2025 — Apr 2026 · 1y
what happened here
  • Architected the Cost Delta Tracker data model on Palantir Foundry over Oracle Fusion PO revision history: ingestion, ontology modeling, and a reusable 11-category root-cause classification.
  • Defined data contracts and field-level validation across multiple source exports, with type checks and revision-chain integrity tests.
  • Onboarded 10,000+ suppliers with EAR/OFAC/denied-parties compliance screening and a SAM.gov API integration.
  • Developed conceptual, logical, and physical data models spanning relational and non-relational stores.
Palantir FoundryOracle FusionData ContractsSAM.gov API

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Long Beach, CA · Specialty LED lighting
Data & Automation Engineer / Operations Analyst
Full-time · Apr 2025 — Sep 2025 · 6m
what happened here
  • Architected event-driven data pipelines solo, end to end — a unified data store fed by Python ETL from Pipedrive and ShipStation, with error logging and idempotent retries.
  • Designed the schema of a 113-field ORDERS database across a 5-phase RFQ/RFP pipeline — the structured layer behind Power BI dashboards that cut order-to-ship time 18%.
  • Shipped reusable open-source data tooling (native Python and Rust PDF extraction) adopted as a shared library.
  • Built streaming, event-driven ingestion on AWS cloud-native services.
PythonRustAWSETLPower BI

U.S. Department of Energy

Long Beach, CA
Compliance Specialist — Data Engineering
Contract · Sep 2024 — May 2025 · 9m
what happened here
  • Mapped 10 CFR 851 and NIST 800-53 controls across a classified subcontractor network. Zero DOE audit findings.
  • Conducted Initial Baseline Reviews with tier-1/tier-2 subcontractors, driving closure of 40+ findings ahead of schedule.
  • Designed attribute-based access controls reflecting user, resource, and mission attributes across a classified data environment.
NIST 800-5310 CFR 851ABACGovernance

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Redondo Beach, CA · Aerospace & defense prime
Program & Cost Analyst (Level 3) — Data Engineering
Full-time · Apr 2023 — Sep 2024 · 1y 6m
what happened here
  • Drove EVM variance analysis on a $5B satellite program across 300+ Control Accounts and 1,000+ WBS line items.
  • Subcontract Lead for a $400M IPT; negotiated $7.2M in FY24 cost recovery; promoted to Level 3 in 6 months.
  • Automated integration between transactional program systems and analytical dashboards.
EVMWBSProgram DataAutomation

United States Navy — USS SEAWOLF (SSN-21)

Submarine Service
Sonar Technician (PO2) — TS/SCI
Active Duty · Feb 2018 — Apr 2023 · 5y 3m
what happened here
  • Conducted TS/SCI-cleared operations across WESTPAC, UCOM, and SUMMEREX; detected and tracked 15 next-generation foreign submarines — spatial-temporal tracking and entity resolution under real operational constraints.
  • Sole Linux/Windows SME for AN/BQQ-10 and AN/BYG-1 combat systems; tested AUV/UUV prototypes.
  • Operated real-time streaming sensor-data pipelines, applying data-quality, ordering, and retrieval patterns to track entities across space and time.
SonarLinuxStreamingTS/SCI

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Santa Ana, CA · E-Commerce
Business Analyst Manager — Data Architecture & Reporting
Full-time · Jul 2016 — Sep 2017 · 1y 3m
what happened here
  • Built the company's core data architecture and reporting layer from the ground up — inventory, SKU, and sales data models unifying fragmented operational data.
  • Architected dashboards used to manage $10M in operations directly with the CEO.
  • Scaled the team from 3 to 30 while standing up data structures and reporting standards.
Data ModelingDashboardsSKU/Inventory

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Irvine, CA · Hyperscale cloud provider
Data Center Analyst
Contract · Jun 2016 — Sep 2016 · 4m
what happened here
  • MVS zSeries/VM/VSE production support, SLA compliance, IPL/maintenance/backup.
  • Supported large-scale data storage and processing infrastructure with SLA-driven reliability.
Data CenterSLABackup/Recovery

University of California, IrvineB.S. Business & Managerial Economics, Dean's List — 2012

Palantir FoundryApplication Developer, Data Engineer, Data Analyst, Data Science tracks; AIP Builder Foundations

DefenseDoD 8570 Baseline (targeting Security+/Network+) · SAP4 & EVM Lead Trainer · Navy NEC 0416 Advanced Sonar Technician

Languages
PythonTypeScriptRustSQLJavaScriptJavaScalaC#
Data & Platforms
Palantir FoundryPostgreSQLOracle FusionSparkKafka / KinesisParquetNoSQL / JSON
Cloud & Infra
AWSGCPAzure GovCloudDockerTerraformGitHub Actions
AI / LLM
RAG pipelinesOllama (local LLM)OpenAI APIAnthropic APIGemini API
Governance
ABAC access designData contractsMetadata & lineageNIST 800-53Data quality

most of my work lives behind clearances and firewalls, so these are told as stories, not screenshots.

Quality data foundation + verified Q&A agent

2026
[REDACTED] autonomous defense

Defined the schema-level data foundation for Quality and Manufacturing on Palantir Foundry, then put it to work: a QMS knowledge base and a verified-procedure Q&A agent that only answers from curated, governed datasets.

FoundryOntologyAI on governed data

Cost Delta Tracker

2025
[REDACTED] directed energy

A domain-owned data product over Oracle Fusion PO revision history: ingestion, ontology modeling, and a reusable 11-category root-cause classification, reconciled to ground truth with regression testing before publishing.

FoundryOracle FusionData product

Open-source PDF extraction tooling

2025
[REDACTED] LED lighting

Native Python and Rust PDF extraction shipped as reusable open-source tooling and adopted as a shared library — faster, cheaper ingestion for everyone downstream.

PythonRustOpen source

$5B satellite program data

2023-24
[REDACTED] aerospace prime

EVM variance analysis across 300+ control accounts and 1,000+ WBS line items — the relational structure and integrity rules behind defensible program data, plus $7.2M in negotiated FY24 cost recovery.

EVMProgram data

Tracking what you cannot see

2018-23
U.S. Navy, USS Seawolf

Five years under the Pacific doing spatial-temporal entity resolution the hard way: real-time sonar sensor pipelines, 15 next-generation foreign submarines detected and tracked, zero room for bad data.

SonarStreamingSpatial-temporal
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