Kyutae Ahn
South Korea
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolKyutae Ahn is a serial founder and engineering leader with over two decades of embedded and smart TV software experience and a decade focused on IoT, AI and blockchain ventures. He founded Trustfarm mobile and TAO.Foundation to build POI-based AR/VR platforms and a universal blockchain architecture for IoE, combining research-led productization with real-world deployments. Formerly a chief research engineer at LG, he led SmartTV SoC transitions, middleware and DVR/peer-to-peer innovations across consumer products and holds multiple standards- and patent-driven accomplishments. An active open-source contributor, he optimized CUDA kernels for ethminer’s Ethereum mining client, reflecting low-level performance expertise alongside system architecture skills. Rooted in a practical, human-first technology vision and a farming family background, he pursues decentralized micro-payment and UBI-inspired models for creative ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Electronics & Algorithms, Master of Science (MS), Electronics & Algorithms at 한양대학교
Korean, English
Github Skills (7)
cuda10
mining10
gpu-programming10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ethereum9
opencl8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum-mining/ethminer
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Ethereum miner with OpenCL, CUDA and stratum support
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 16 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Kyutae primarily contributed to the CUDA implementation within the ethminer project. Their work focused on adding support for NVIDIA CUDA 8.0, particularly involving the modification of shared memory operations using `__shfls`. The changes included updates to CUDA kernel code and macro definitions for cross-thread communication, demonstrating a focus on optimizing the mining algorithm. The user also updated the Windows executable, integrating an icon.
cudagpuethereumethereum-minerstratum
trustfarm/parity
Jan 2018 - Apr 2021
Fast, light, robust Ethereum implementation
Contributions:13 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
ethereumblockchainlightether
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.