Il Sun is senior manager, data management and cloud at F2 Strategy. He is an experienced technology executive driving impact and business value by offering technical organizational strategy and design, innovative technical product and solution consulting. He has particular expertise in data and DevOps, and imparting lasting organizational transformation, across multiple industries, from federal agencies to start-ups to Fortune 100 corporations. He has delivered enterprise technology designs and implementations reaching millions of customers with millisecond latencies. Most recently, Ill Sun worked at Vanguard as the head of engineering for some of its data initiatives. He has also led large, global teams responsible for data and architecture at companies like GSK and Capital One, while also having worked at scrappy start-ups just starting their technical journey. Il Sun lives in Philadelphia with his wife, four kids and dog.

What are you most passionate about in your role at F2 Strategy? 

Especially at the beginning, I’m passionate about laying the foundations for data that can have a dramatic impact on efforts later in a company’s growth, so I am excited to help as many clients as possible in this space.

Want to age yourself? What has changed the most since you started out in the industry? 

When I first started, my biggest source of anxiety was hiring systems administrators and the like to lay the proper foundations (in this case, servers and the software running on them), even before I could build anything more user centric on top. Today, with the cloud, we can accelerate towards P/L outcomes without that bottleneck for technical talent at the bare metal level, but the challenges have only shifted to the data layer, which is where our opportunities lie together.

What are three words that describe how you do your job? 

I operate efficiently, with quality and integrity at the forefront.