Seungju Lee
Software Engineer at Conduit
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSeungju Lee is a product-driven software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems, video infrastructure, and Web3 products from seed-stage hacks to production services. Based in New York, he has driven high-throughput systems at Twitch—building an HLS master playlist server and real-time video pipelines—and contributed to Ethereum scaling infrastructure by refactoring core admin APIs and consolidating metrics in the Optimism project. As a founding engineer and freelancer he’s shipped DeFi protocols, cross-chain account-abstraction wallets, and won multiple hackathon prizes, demonstrating both product and protocol-level impact. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with frontend and Solidity work, frequently taking projects from prototype to fundraising and launch. A former Korean military network specialist and UNIFIL network manager, he brings disciplined operational rigor to on-call and reliability work. He’s equally focused on cultural bridge-building and practical design, turning intangible ideas into tangible, user-focused products.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
English, Korean, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese
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Github Skills (13)
rpc10
go10
opt10
back-end-development10
optim10
devops9
rollupjs8
scale8
autoscaling8
scaling8
ethereum8
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum-optimism/optimism
Sep 2023 - Aug 2024
Optimism is Ethereum, scaled.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Seungju primarily focused on refactoring and standardizing the admin API within the `op-service` module, indicating work on the core infrastructure and service layer. They also made changes to the `op-batcher` component, removing redundant configurations and integrating with the standardized `op-service` configurations. Furthermore, the user refactored the metrics implementation, moving RPC-related metrics to the `op-service` for consolidation. This suggests a focus on improving the architecture and maintainability of the project.
rollupl2-scalingovmethereumblockchain
OneClickLeverage/Cream-Leverage-Contract
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:81 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 7 days
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