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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.
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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.
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111percent· GombleFrontend Engineer

2025

Web3 arm of game studio 111percent. Reward app, NFT community, $GM token claim site.

  • Designed the token-claim dApp to keep wallet connection and transactions stable through a with 10k+ daily spikes. Listed on Binance Alpha, Coinone, Bitget.
  • Native app (React Native, Expo) and PWA for the ad-reward product, NFT verification and staking community site, upgradeable contracts for a betting game.
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GXC· xCBTBlockchain Engineer

2024–2025

A platform where players test a new blockchain game every month and compete for rewards.

  • Built the social-verification mission platform that earned 10K+ USDT. Wrote and updated NFT contracts, worked in a client + back-office monorepo.
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CatzeLabs· YooldoFrontend Engineer

2023–2024

Blockchain gaming platform helping Web2 games move to Web3. Backed by Consensys.

  • Onboarded 900k+ gamers unfamiliar with Web3 onto the chain. NFT purchase and verification UX that contributed to up to $150k monthly revenue.
  • Eight NFT mint pages grossing 300M+ KRW, transaction-receipt verification logic, back-office tooling, and a shared UI component library on npm.
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Earlier

  • Bluepoint PartnersFrontend EngineerIn-house investment management tool for an accelerator. Automated a three-day contract-prep process.2021–2022
  • Tasting Venture· FOUNDFounderFOUND, a GPS-based lost-and-found reward app. 5k Play Store downloads.2018–2019

Writing

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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