Summary
Seungmin Baik is a blockchain-focused technology leader and current CTO with 11 years of engineering experience, evolving from full‑stack web development to architecting Web3, DeFi, and smart contract systems. He has hands-on expertise in Solidity, Foundry, Hardhat, React/Next/TypeScript frontends and Node.js/Firebase backends, and has shipped DeFi primitives including DEXs, lending, LSD products and on-chain poker. His recent roles span building crypto quant tools, off-chain NFT marketplace infrastructure, and teaching a DeFi Deep Dive course, reflecting both product delivery and domain evangelism. Known for bridging protocol-level smart contract design with user-facing web applications, he moves fluidly between security-minded contract work and performant frontend UX. Based in Seoul, he combines academic grounding from a master's program with practical R&D that repeatedly advances teams from prototype to production. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who surfaces subtle economic and safety trade-offs early in design.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Soongsil University