Summary
Matthew Kim is a Head of Engineering based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building production-grade systems across payments, Bitcoin custody, fraud risk, and machine learning. He led core infrastructure at Cash App for Bitcoin hot wallets and Lightning, and moved an internal skunkworks project into a GA Bitcoin Conversions product; prior roles include risk engineering at Square and real-time fraud and prediction systems at Postmates. Matthew blends ML and backend expertise—earlier work includes machine vision for clinical research and deploying models/ETL pipelines at scale—and he holds an MA in Mathematics from San Francisco State. He also explored crypto-native tooling at Inscribing Atlantis, building a Rust backend for Ordinals-based 3D asset auctions that fused astronomical data into on-chain traits. Known for turning research and proofs-of-concept into resilient, customer-facing features, he mentors teams to ship secure, auditable systems under production constraints.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Mathematics, Master of Arts - MA, Mathematics at San Francisco State University