Junghyun Kim
CEO at BaeRae
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolJunghyun Kim is a founder and CEO with 9 years of engineering and leadership experience building blockchain infrastructure and user-first crypto products. After a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Seoul National University and an early engineering role at Samsung, he led core development and release engineering for Klaytn—contributing to its Go protocol implementation, cross-compilation and keystore enhancements for a major public blockchain. As VP of Technology/Strategy and later CEO of BaeRae, he focuses on making crypto investing radically simple to onboard the next billion users. He also teaches blockchain as an adjunct professor at Kyung Hee University, blending research-grade technical depth with product and ecosystem strategy. Based in Seoul, he combines low-level systems skills with go-to-market leadership across foundations, developers, and investors. An unexpected strength: he moves fluently between release engineering and product vision, shipping the plumbing that enables real consumer-facing Web3 experiences.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at 서울대학교 (Seoul National University)Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at 경희대학교
Korean, English
Github Skills (9)
release-management10
go10
release-automation10
blockchain-platform10
blockchain10
cryptography9
versioning9
rpm8
package-management8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
klaytn/klaytn
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
Official Go implementation of the Klaytn protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Release Engineer
Back-end Developer & Release EngineerContributions:8 releases, 471 reviews, 101 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Junghyun primarily contributed to the Klaytn protocol's Go implementation by releasing new versions and updating the versioning system. They were also involved in refining the cross-compilation scheme and adding packaging scripts for RPM and tar.gz releases. Furthermore, the user implemented and improved keystore functionalities, including the support for multiple private keys.
golangblockchainklaytnblockchain-platform
kjhman21/kips
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:69 pushes, 57 branches in 3 years
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