Baek Kim
General Partner at Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBaek Kim is a General Partner based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of engineering and venture experience spanning AWS IoT and early-stage startups. A Carnegie Mellon-trained electrical and computer engineer with robotics roots, he shipped low-level security work at AWS—contributing TLS/SSL protocol extensions and tests to the widely used s2n-tls project. He co-founded last-mile logistics startup KUNJIP, mentored across ETHGlobal and ConsenSys programs, and now invests in and advises crypto and deep-tech ventures through Hashed and several LP roles. Born in Tokyo and an ex-competitive swimmer and backpacker, he brings a global mindset and hands-on product intuition to fund selection and founder support. His background blends systems-level engineering, product founding, and venture strategy, with a less obvious strength in translating complex protocol engineering into practical, secure products.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Program Venture Capital Crypto Regulation, Executive Program Venture Capital Crypto Regulation at University of California, Berkeley - School of LawBachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering Robotics, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
c1710
crypto10
mtls10
c9910
ssl10
tls1210
c1110
tls1310
encryption10
cryptography10
libtls10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aws/s2n-tls
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
An implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 55 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Baek primarily focused on implementing and extending the TLS/SSL protocols within the s2n-tls repository. Their contributions involved adding and modifying client and server extensions, specifically related to the Maximum Fragmentation Length (MFL) extension. This included configuring MFL, and handling the sending and receiving of the extension during the TLS handshake process. The user also added unit tests to validate the functionality of the MFL extension.
cryptographysslc99tlscrypto
baekkyok/s2n
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
ssltlsssl-tlss2nprotocols
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