Gidong Kim
Founder & CEO at Kornatus.com
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolGidong Kim is a founder and CEO with 17+ years of engineering and product leadership across telecommunications, mobility, and O2O businesses, currently scaling Kornatus's Banban Taxi into a nationwide ride-hailing and last-mile logistics platform. He combines deep technical roots from SK Telecom and SK planet—working on platform architecture, IoT and AI services—with hands-on startup experience in fundraising, government relations, and M&A, including multiple strategic acquisitions and a Series A raise. He led Korea’s first mobility platform to operate under a Regulatory Sandbox, showing an ability to navigate complex regulation and industry conflict. A systems thinker by training (MS Industrial Engineering, Seoul National University), he has retained over 110,000 drivers—roughly 40% of Korea’s taxi workforce—demonstrating operational muscle beyond product design. Comfortable toggling between low-level engineering decisions and high-level business strategy, he’s known for building cross-functional teams and turning regulatory and market constraints into growth levers. Notably, he also led blockchain productization efforts earlier in his career, reflecting a curiosity for emerging technologies applied to real commercial models.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Industrial Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Industrial Engineering at 서울대학교 (Seoul National University)
Github Skills (20)
documentation10
marketplace8
code-behind7
dm7
react5
sublime5
javascript4
sublime-text4
bundle3
vscode3
haxe3
vscode-extension3
programming-language2
visual-studio2
language-server2
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Seeyou2000/SE_UNO_Project
Mar 2023 - May 2023
Contributions:32 reviews, 29 PRs, 80 pushes in 2 months
lucidfext/ncc-desktop-prototype
Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 release, 20 commits, 6 pushes in 11 months
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