Wonyong Kim
Blockchain Lead at Lightscale
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolWonyong Kim is a Blockchain Lead with 11 years of engineering experience, blending deep C++ and systems expertise with practical product shipping across embedded devices and robotics. He shipped JavaScript and web engines for low-memory Samsung devices and contributed as an IoT.js committer before moving into robotics—building SLAM and object detection systems and an open-source Robot Software Platform used at Naver Labs. Now leading zk-rollup and zkEVM work at Lightscale/Bolt Labs Korea, he focuses on ZK backend and security, including GPU-accelerated modular ZK work in projects like kroma-network/tachyon. Comfortable spanning firmware to cryptography, he brings a rare mix of low-level performance tuning, applied robotics research, and zero-knowledge backend development grounded in a Seoul National University CS degree.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
학사, Computer Science & Engineering, 학사, Computer Science & Engineering at 서울대학교 (Seoul National University)
Github Skills (7)
c-language10
capi10
cprogramming-language10
cryptography10
proof9
proofs9
halo9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
kroma-network/tachyon
Sep 2023 - Nov 2024
Modular ZK(Zero Knowledge) backend accelerated by GPU
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:4 releases, 1060 reviews, 527 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Wonyong primarily focused on refactoring code, using `c::base::xxx_cast()` in several files. They also worked on the addition of functionalities with modifications to prover and verifier source files. The user also made several changes related to the creation and handling of C API and serialization methods. These changes indicate involvement in core functionality and security considerations within the project.
backendgpucpp17cudazk
chokobole/felicia
Sep 2019 - Jul 2022
chromium based robot framework
Contributions:1 PR, 297 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 10 months
chromiumrobotframeworkroswebsocketshared-memory
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