Hyung-kyu Choi
Co-Founder COO at DSRV
South Korea
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Top SchoolHyung-kyu Choi is a veteran systems engineer and startup leader with over a decade of experience building and optimizing execution environments for VMs, NPUs, and blockchains. He co-founded DSRV and has held CTO/COO roles driving validator infrastructure, consensus and profit-center operations while previously architecting Klaytn’s consensus and EVM execution at Ground X. His deep compiler and runtime expertise spans JIT code generation, register allocation across ARM/SPARC/Intel, memory allocators and garbage collectors, and NPU inference compilers from work at Samsung and earlier embedded-Java systems. He combines rigorous academic training (PhD-level research in compilers and memory management) with hands-on production delivery, and is now extending that low-level performance focus into EVM and WebAssembly execution for blockchain ecosystems. An understated strength is his history of enabling platform portability—bringing .NET Core, V8/JSC improvements and toolchain support to new architectures and devices.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Seoul National UniversityElectrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Korean
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Github Skills (132)
geth10
python10
low-level10
cryptocurrency10
abi10
deep-learning10
smart-contracts10
javascript-api10
p2p10
wallet10
dotnet-cli10
linux10
dotnet10
cil10
ml10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
hqueue/corefx
May 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:72 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year 6 months
dotnetfile-systemsconsolexmlnet-core
hqueue/cosmos-sdk
Aug 2019 - Nov 2023
:chains: A Framework for Building High Value Public Blockchains :sparkles:
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
blockchainchainsblockchain-networksparklesblockchains
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