Minchan Kim
Founder & CEO at Clone
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMinchan Kim is a founder and CEO based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building machine learning systems and production services for consumer and frontier AI products. He founded Clone to power computer-use agents for AI labs after leading vision-language-action research and deploying RL-driven revenue and moderation systems at companies like HYPERCONNECT and Match Group. His background blends hands-on ML research—shipping diffusion and face-swap models, GPT-based chatbots, and super-resolution/video restoration—with backend and mobile engineering experience, including contributions to a well-known Android secure-preferences library. Comfortable moving models from research to product, he’s known for pragmatic security and testing improvements and for inventing interaction models that make AI agents actually useful on users’ desktops. Fluent in both startup leadership and deep technical delivery, he brings an uncommon mix of entrepreneurial drive and production-grade ML engineering.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
College of Liberal Studies, College of Liberal Studies at 서울대학교 (Seoul National University)
Korean, engilsh
Github Skills (4)
java10
javas10
android10
unit-testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
scottyab/secure-preferences
May 2016 - May 2016
Android Shared preference wrapper than encrypts the values of Shared Preferences. It's not bullet proof security but rather a quick win for incrementally making your android app more secure.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Minchan primarily contributed to the Android-specific secure preferences library. Their work included expanding the constructor, incorporating iteration count parameters for key generation, and implementing password change functionalities. They also added and modified unit tests to validate the changes, including the new iteration count handling and password updates. This demonstrates a focus on enhancing the library's security features and testing its core functionality.
securepreferenceshared-preferencessecure-preferencesobfuscated
ShinJJang/shinjjang.github.io
Jul 2015 - Jan 2025
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 7 months
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