Ace Shim
Vice-Chair Technical Advisory Committee at OpenWallet Foundation
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolAce Shim is a blockchain and decentralized identity entrepreneur with nine years of experience building high-performance, privacy-preserving credential systems. As Co-founder and CEO of Hopae he delivers DIDaaS for governments and businesses, and his team created COOV—South Korea’s blockchain vaccination credential with tens of millions of users and billions of verifications. He led COOV’s production engineering to achieve millisecond API responses and thousands of TPS, and previously researched SSI, cross-chain contracts, and oracles at LG CNS. Active in standards work, Ace organizes SSIMeetup Korea, translated W3C DID/VC specs into Korean, and serves on the OpenWallet Foundation’s Technical Advisory Committee. Based in Palo Alto and trained at UIUC, he combines product leadership with deep protocol-level knowledge, often bridging academic standards and real-world, award-winning UX.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Korean, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (53)
solidity10
decentralized-identifiers10
nanoid10
truffle10
ccpa9
javascript9
blockchain9
claims9
jwt9
ethereum9
representations9
smart-contracts9
react-native8
react8
w3c8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
projecttaco/Jonbur
Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
A website for people to HODL their coins using React / Truffle suite.
Contributions:1 release, 116 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 1 month
reactdappethereumtruffleweb3
projecttaco/projecttaco.github.io
Nov 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:1 release, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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