Summary
Lester Kim is a versatile software engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building data-intensive systems across startups and major tech firms. He has shipped production services in Rust, Go, Python, and Solidity, from migrating monoliths to microservices and improving API latencies to architecting upgradable ERC-1155 contracts and data ingestion pipelines for municipal tax records. As Head of Engineering at Balcony he turned outsourced tech into an in-house stack, exposed seven-figure missed revenue, and hired and grew an engineering team, while earlier roles at Kraken and Magic Eden demonstrate deep backend, streaming, and blockchain expertise. His background in physics and actuarial science informs a quantitative approach to systems design and cost modeling, and he balances engineering rigor with product sensibility. Colleagues would note he’s quietly inventive — a “deep sleeping engineer” who surfaces robust, pragmatic solutions to thorny infrastructure and data problems.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Physics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Physics at Harvard University
Master of Science (M.S.), Actuarial Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Actuarial Science at Columbia University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Plainview-Old Bethpage/Jfk High School
English, Korean, French