Kangmo Kim
Software Developer at Jeju AI Research Center
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolKangmo Kim is a seasoned software developer and founder with over 14 years of professional experience and more than 20 years building systems that power high-performance trading, databases, and blockchain platforms. Based in Seoul, he led low-latency trading platform development at Korea Exchange achieving sub-70µs latencies and scaled throughput from 250TPS to 20,000TPS, later serving as CTO at Korea’s first Bitcoin exchange. He founded ScaleChain and has openly broadcast the end-to-end development of a blockchain written from scratch, reflecting a rare blend of deep systems engineering and transparent community-facing documentation. His background includes storage and transaction internals from work at Altibase and Microsoft, giving him strong expertise in databases, replication, and scalable backend architectures. Now at Jeju AI Research Center, he combines hands-on protocol development with applied research, bringing pragmatic performance tuning to novel distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Korea University
Korean, English
Github Skills (135)
miner10
cryptocurrency10
database10
llama10
bitcoin10
persistent10
asynchronous10
ethereum10
blockchain10
stratum10
opencl9
gpu9
cpp9
bitcoin-api9
netty9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Kangmo/bitcoinj
Sep 2014 - Oct 2014
Bitcoin implementation written in Scala. Under heavy construction.
Contributions:29 commits in 1 month
Nanolat/nldb
Dec 2012 - Apr 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 1 year 4 months
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