Larry Kim
Software Developer at ScaleChain
Seoul, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
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 (104)
miner10
cpp10
opencl10
ethereum10
blockchain10
llm-inference9
sampling9
database9
cryptocurrency9
netty9
asynchronous9
event-driven9
sequence9
beam-search9
bitcoin9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ScaleChain/distai
Dec 2016 - Sep 2017
Realize distributed neural networks on blockchain
Contributions:24 commits, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
blockchainneural-network
Nanolat/nldb
Dec 2012 - Apr 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 1 year 4 months
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