KR

Jake Kim 김성주

I build financial software people trust with real money.

Product Engineer · Crypto-native Builder · AI-native Developer

An AI-native product engineer who started in crypto and has built dApps, on-chain games, and an institutional trading terminal.

Right now I'm building OrderX, a multi-exchange crypto derivatives terminal. I use Claude and Codex as planner and reviewer, run the systems I design all the way to production, and like building big products with small teams.

Works

SunLabs AG· OrderXFE Part Lead

2025–Now

A terminal built toward an institutional . $10B processed and $1M revenue during pilot and private beta.

  • Designed the order-execution flow that bundles and futures orders across venues and accounts into one , unifying each exchange's symbol format and account structure on the frontend.
  • Cut steady-state browser memory from 3.8GB to about 1GB. Replaced 's CPU-bound layout math with a so chart-heavy dashboards drag without stutter.
  • Established a + Claude–Codex workflow. Edge cases that a single model or agent would have left to resurface days or weeks later get caught at review, saving one to three-plus working days per feature. Built a + agent pipeline for localization.
Details

YGG· Waifu SweeperFrontend & Contract Engineer

2025–2026

A roguelike minesweeper on the . Partnered with YGG Play and Raito. The service has ended; the link is a build on the original frontend core.

  • The payment contract I designed processed 19,939 purchases with zero failures, in total (72,500 USDC, 25,000 USDT, , ). Hover an amount for the live conversion.
  • let token-economy changes for repurchase and retention ship weekly without redeploying. Externally audited, ran on mainnet.
  • Built and ran the client and in-game logic solo using context injection. record in-game actions on-chain without a signature each time.
Details

111percent· GombleFrontend Engineer

2025

Web3 arm of game studio 111percent. Joined after a month of remote handover, now the sole frontend engineer.

  • Distributed the token airdrop claim page's requests across 10 public nodes, running with zero dev-side CS issues. Listed on Binance Alpha, Coinone, Bitget.
  • Built a reward app (React Native + Expo, Admob) and a matching PWA in parallel. Also designed a casual-clicker-plus-betting blockchain game, an NFT staking site, and an outsourced mini-game, solo.
Details

GXC· xCBTBlockchain Engineer

2024–2025

A monthly-refreshed blockchain game mission platform, a GXC spin-off built by a two-person team.

  • Joined at the team-building stage; owned the website, NFT smart contracts, and purchase/burn verification logic. Built the social-verification mission platform that earned 10K+ USDT.
  • Two-person team, paired with one backend/infra engineer. Turborepo , Thirdweb , OAuth for Twitter, Epic Games, and Discord.
Details

CatzeLabs· YooldoFrontend Engineer

2023–2024

Linea's largest GameFi platform, helping Web2 games move to Web3. Technical collaboration with wallet teams including Consensys (MetaMask).

  • User count up 20,000%+ after the rebrand, with 1.38M+ monthly transactions and $152.73K+ monthly volume. Ranked #26 overall on 's gaming sector and #1 on Linea (April 2024).
  • Sold out an 8,888-piece NFT collection in a week, grossing 300M+ KRW. Collaborated in written English with MetaMask (Consensys), Unisat, and Facewallet on bug and improvement reports.
  • Split the design system into an npm library (catze-ui) and migrated styled-components to Tailwind. Cut the operational kill switch time by 10+ minutes via the back office.
Details

Earlier

  • Bluepoint PartnersFrontend EngineerIn-house investment management tool for an accelerator. Six months as an intern, then two months on contract.2021–2022
  • Tasting Venture· FOUNDFounderFOUND, a GPS-based lost-and-found reward app. 5k Play Store downloads, ran until Feb 2020.2018–2019

Writing

No posts yet.

Stack

TypeScript · React 19 · Next.js 15 · Vite · Bun · Jotai · TanStack Query · Tailwind v4 · WebSocket / Protobuf · TradingView Charting Library · dnd-kit · Solidity · Hardhat · OpenZeppelin UUPS · Viem / Wagmi · Abstract Global Wallet · React Native / Expo · Vercel · AWS

Education & Credentials

Updated 2026-09-12 · Yongin, Korea · Remote