Hwiย Ahn
Blockchain Engineer at 42dot
Sejong, South Korea
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Top SchoolHwi Ahn is a blockchain engineer with 11 years of software experience, currently operating node clusters and building blockchain-backed backend platforms at 42dot. He combines systems-level expertise in Go and Java (including bytecode instrumentation) with full-stack TypeScript/React skills honed as a former CTO who led product design, distributed backend integration, and junior developer mentoring. His background spans founding a developer tooling startup (NavMine), securing early-stage funding and government contracts, and delivering production services that required both architecture design and hands-on implementation. Academically grounded with advanced studies at KAIST and Carnegie Mellon, he brings research rigor to practical blockchain and backend challenges. An understated strength is his ability to bridge low-level JVM/ASM work with modern decentralized systems, enabling auditability and high-reliability operations.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Science in Information Technology - Software Engineering (MSIT-SE) program, Master's degree, Science in Information Technology - Software Engineering (MSIT-SE) program at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor candidate, Computer Science, Bachelor candidate, Computer Science at Information and Communications UniversityCertificate of Completion Kauffman FastTrac, FastTrac Planning the Entrepreneurial Venture Program, Certificate of Completion Kauffman FastTrac, FastTrac Planning the Entrepreneurial Venture Program at Korea Entrepreneurship FoundationDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
English, Korean
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Github Skills (62)
blockchain-platform10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
move10
user-experience10
blockchain-network10
chain9
sui9
aptos9
ethereum8
sdk-nodejs8
react7
grpc-web7
uikit7
hyperledger-fabric6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DE-labtory/yggdrasill
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Block storage(Blockchain) library that supports custom blocks and transactions
Contributions:108 commits, 18 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 months
blockchain-storageblockchaincustom-blocksblock-storagestorage
mhhyun/loopchain_tutorial
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
blockchaintutorial-project
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