Forward Deployed Engineer

Building Blockchain-Native AI
For Financial Infrastructure.

Forward Deployed Engineer at Altus (formerly B-Harvest), building AI-powered products and infrastructure for financial infrastructure transformation. Background in blockchain protocol development and infrastructure operations across 20+ networks.

Current
Forward Deployed Engineer @ Altus
Research
Decipher Member
Seminar
Wall Street DeFi
About

Protocol to Product

Building AI-powered products and infrastructure for financial infrastructure transformation at Altus (formerly B-Harvest), spanning product engineering, cloud infrastructure, and security. Background in Cosmos SDK protocol development and blockchain infrastructure operations across 20+ networks.

Forward Deployed Engineer

Altus · Apr 2026 - Present

Building AI-powered internal products and operational platforms for financial infrastructure transformation, including an AI-powered BD intelligence platform, AI-assisted presentation tooling, and security automation covering secret scanning and DLP evaluation. Also designs and operates AWS infrastructure across ECS, IAM, DynamoDB, SQS, and Terraform.

Blockchain Core Developer

Altus · Nov 2025 - Apr 2026

Developed core features for an L1 blockchain, including a gas waiver system and chain-specific utility modules. Also built dev tooling for validator operations, including a process supervisor with structured state management and security-focused binary verification.

Blockchain DevOps Engineer

Altus · Dec 2023 - Feb 2026

Managed validator and RPC node operations for 20+ networks including Cosmos SDK chains, Babylon, and Chainlink. Designed and operated high-availability infrastructure across bare-metal servers in multiple regions with ArgoCD-driven GitOps workflows. Built devnet-builder, a devnet provisioner that spins up networks from latest mainnet or testnet state.

Blockchain DevOps Engineer (Intern)

Altus · Sep 2023 - Nov 2023

Onboarded to blockchain infrastructure operations. Assisted with node deployment and monitoring tasks.

Wall Street Defi Seminar, Member

Jul 2026 - Present

Member of a seminar exploring the intersection of traditional Wall Street finance and decentralized finance protocols.

Decipher, Member

Mar 2025 - Present

Member of a blockchain research society. Contributed to CipherBFT, a consensus protocol implementation based on Autobahn BFT, and presented it at DE-FERENCE 2026. Participating in candidate evaluation and knowledge sharing across DeFi, security, and protocol design topics.

Projects

Projects

cipherbft

A high-performance BFT consensus research project exploring next-generation consensus mechanisms

Rust91
Jun 2026

horcrux

Threshold HA CometBFT/Tendermint remote signer

01
Jul 2025

vigilante

Go167
Jul 2026

cosmos-operator

Go0
Apr 2026
Articles

Articles

PoC는 됐다. 오라클이 없으면 그 다음은 없다
BlogMay 6, 2026

PoC는 됐다. 오라클이 없으면 그 다음은 없다

블록체인 도입을 검토하는 금융기관이 반복적으로 멈추는 지점이 있다. 기술 문제가 아니다.

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Why your blockchain node is always slow
BlogMay 6, 2026

Why your blockchain node is always slow

Not the wrong instinct. But in my experience, the real culprit is the disk.

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[ENG] What LayerZero DVNs See, What Cosmos IBC Light Clients See
BlogApr 22, 2026

[ENG] What LayerZero DVNs See, What Cosmos IBC Light Clients See

A structural comparison of cross-chain verification, surfaced by the KelpDAO $290M exploit

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[KOR] Layerzero DVN이 보는 것, Cosmos IBC가 보는 것
BlogApr 22, 2026

[KOR] Layerzero DVN이 보는 것, Cosmos IBC가 보는 것

KelpDAO 2.9억 달러 탈취 사건이 드러낸 cross-chain 검증의 구조적 차이

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CometBFT's Blocksync 0-Day: Neither High Nor Informational
BlogApr 22, 2026

CometBFT's Blocksync 0-Day: Neither High Nor Informational

Three failures to separate: the bug, the severity claim, the triage process

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금융기관이 블록체인을 도입하면 취약점 평가에서 막힌다
BlogApr 14, 2026

금융기관이 블록체인을 도입하면 취약점 평가에서 막힌다

법은 막지 않는데 평가 체계가 막는다

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Contact

Contact

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