Yongkuย Lee
Co-Founder CTO at Mintall
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolYongku Lee is a Seoul-based entrepreneur and technology leader with 11 years of experience building AI and blockchain products, currently serving as Co-Founder CTO and simultaneously advancing Firmachain and AI-driven services like Donue.ai. He has repeatedly turned research-grade NLP and generative AI into commercial SaaS and product offerings, from early social-learning apps through AI tutors to image-generative design tooling. His hands-on background spans founding multiple startups, scaling Riiid from a team under 20 to a 200+ global company, and navigating hard lessons in exchange security and operational resilience. Comfortable switching between low-level engineering and strategic CTO responsibilities, he blends academic depth as a Korea University engineering doctoral candidate with pragmatic product execution. Notably, his work on Firmachain emphasizes on-chain proof-of-persistence for contracts, foreshadowing contracts between AI agents as a next frontier.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Candidate in Doctor of Enginnering, Computer Software Engineering, Candidate in Doctor of Enginnering, Computer Software Engineering at Korea University
English, Korean
Github Skills (32)
discord10
telegram10
swarm10
crypto9
slack9
agent9
chatbot9
ai8
agentic7
spring-social7
google-api7
binding7
spring-boot5
blockchain5
api5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
koofree/research-aied
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes in 9 months
koofree/Java-DB-IP
Apr 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
javadatabasejava-wrapper
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