Kam Sze Yeung

Nominee details

Title: Mr.
Name: Kam Sze Yeung
Position: Principal Network Architect
Organization: Akamai Technologies

Kam Sze Yeung

Biographical info

Education/qualifications

Master of Computer Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Bachelor of Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Relevant Board Experience

APNIC EC member since Feb 2016
HKNOG Program Committee since Oct 2014
Peering Asia Working Group member since Jun 2016
TWNOG Multi-stakeholder Group member since Mar 2018
SGNOG Organizing Committee since Feb 2022

All my combined and varied experience of over four decades on senior board positions gives me enough knowledge to provide positive contribution to APNIC Board.

Senior Management Experience:

Feb 2016 - current: APNIC EC member.
Oct 2011 - current: Principal Network Architect of Akamai Technologies, Lead Architect covering Asia Pacific
Jan 2008 - Apr 2011: Senior Manager of IP Engineering team of Pacnet, managing a team of network engineers for network design and infrastructure deployment

Nominee statement

I have been working in the Internet-related companies in Asia Pacific since 2001. This provides me an extensive regional exposure which enable me to understand the different Internet environment in Asia Pacific.

I have participated and contributed to the technical community and peering community in the Asia Pacific region in the past 10+ years. These include APRICOT, APNIC, APF, KPF, Peering Asia, APrIGF, ISOC HK, ICANN, IETF, HKNOG, SGNOG, MyNOG, IDNOG, TWNOG, PhNOG, VNIX-NOG etc.

With the involvement in the Internet communities, I could understand the wants from the communities and I will continue to listen and help gather the inputs to APNIC to enhance the services to fit for the members' benefit.

Being one of the program committee of HKNOG, working group of Peering Asia and organizing comittee of SGNOG, I have been actively promoting the collaboration and knowledge sharing to the local Internet communities. I believe my strong technical networking background would contribute to a better policy for the Internet communities in Asia Pacific.

During my last 8 years as APNIC EC, I’ve more understanding of the APNIC as an organization and APNIC members’ expectations.

I acknowledge that my candidacy has the support of NRS. To clarify, I did not seek the endorsement of NRS, nor have I agreed to give anything to NRS for such endorsement. I do not have any relationship and affiliation of any kind with NRS.

Nominated by

Organization:: U Mobile Sdn Bhd

Reason for nomination

Kams has responsibilities primarily covering peering, routed interconnections and capacity planning. Kams is a 16-year veteran of the Internet industry and an international network engineering, operations and data center professional. He has served as an infrastructure team member during APRICOT-APAN 2011. Before Akamai, Kams was Product Manager at Equinix, and Senior Manager, IP Engineering at Pacnet. He’s a regular supporter of APRICOT, APNIC, APF, and other industry community gatherings.

Electoral Committee Eligibility Statement

The Electoral Committee has determined, based on the information available to it as at 31 January 2024, that the Nominee meets the eligibility criteria to be nominated for the APNIC EC.

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Change log:

19/02/2024 – The Nominee profile was edited on 19 February 2024 at the request of the Nominee in response to the publication of an unsolicited endorsement by a group calling themselves the Number Resource Society.