Hyuk Kang
Co-Founder, CTO at Linkface
South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolHyuk Kang is a seasoned hardware and system software leader with 11+ years of experience as Co-Founder and CTO of Linkface, a Samsung C-Lab spinoff that has delivered multiple CES Innovation Award-winning products. He combines circuit and analog design, firmware and mobile connectivity, product planning, and IP management—holding 75 issued patents across major jurisdictions and 157 pending filings—demonstrating rare depth across invention, implementation, and commercialization. At Samsung he worked across RF, BLE, biosignal sensing, and system architecture, shipping products that bridged research prototypes and consumer-ready devices. Known for meticulous attention to customer-meaningful details and cross-functional collaboration, he leads teams from concept through regulatory and patent maturity. Beyond engineering, he’s a prolific inventor who leverages patent strategy as a product lever, not just legal protection. Based in South Korea, he pairs strong hands-on technical execution with startup leadership and global product experience.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science & Engineering_, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science & Engineering_ at Chung-Ang University
Korean, English
Stackoverflow
1,721reputation
126kreached
46answers
3questions
ionic-framework
top-5%
Github Skills (40)
video-editing10
signal-processing9
animation9
gif9
ionic9
ionic-framework9
editing9
python8
science8
seismology8
video-processing8
toolbox8
earthquake8
obspy7
ffmpeg7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SCSCML/gym-gobang
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
brainstormot/DeepLearningZeroToAllJS
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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