Jayb Kim
Founder & CEO at MilkyWay
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolJayb K is a Seoul-based founder and CEO with nine years of hands-on experience building and securing blockchain infrastructure across Cosmos, Tendermint, and multiple Layer-1 projects. He has led engineering teams and core module development at organizations like Crescent Network, Cosmostation, and Ignite, and later audited dozens of DeFi protocols as a smart contract auditor. Jayb’s work spans protocol design, genesis automation, interchain account implementations (ICS27), and tooling for airdrops and testnet/mainnet generation, demonstrating a strong mix of research and production delivery. As founder of MilkyWay and an active contributor through MilkyWay Labs, he combines entrepreneurial drive with deep technical stewardship of distributed systems. Notably, he has driven integrations that enable cross-chain interoperability and liquidity primitives within the Cosmos ecosystem—skills that bridge developer tooling, validator operations, and secure protocol design. He holds a B.S. in Information Management & Technology from Syracuse University and brings a pragmatic, security-first approach to blockchain productization.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Information Management & Technology, Alumni, B.S, Information Management & Technology, Alumni at Syracuse University
Korean, English
Github Skills (186)
cosmos10
terraform10
cryptocurrency10
relayer10
crypto10
notification-server10
notification10
sdk10
golang10
amino10
go10
golang-server10
cosmos-sdk10
tendermint10
secured10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
milkyway-labs/launch
Nov 2023 - Jan 2025
🚀 Launch
Contributions:3 reviews, 14 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 2 months
kogisin/farming
Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 245 pushes, 39 branches in 4 months
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