Matt Kim

I'm an engineer who builds production systems end to end. I co-founded mefriend.ai, an AI platform that scaled to ~300K users, built naly from bare silicon to a shipping device, and made claude-devtools, an open-source tool with 3.5K+ stars used by thousands of developers.

I'm happiest taking a vague problem, holding the whole system in my head, and shipping a working, high-quality version fast — across hardware, AI infra, and the products on top. I'm looking for the next hard problem to own.

Experience

  • IBM (Korea) · AI Engineer InternJul–Sep 2026
    Agentic AI systems · RAG & LLM pipelines · enterprise PoCs
  • mefriend.ai · Co-founderNov 2024 – Jun 2026
    AI character platform with persistent memory · scaled to ~300K users.
  • naly · Co-founderJan – Oct 2024
    AI companion speaker · custom Linux, PCB design, Shenzhen factory debug.
  • Samsung S.LSI — NPU Group · InternSep–Dec 2023
    Transformer HW-accelerator feasibility · DETR bottleneck analysis

Research

  • KAISTJun–Jul 2023
    RL robotics · reducing the sim2real gap
  • Sungkyunkwan UniversityMar–May 2023
    Hand-pose estimation · real-time depth-image CV
  • POSTECHJan–Feb 2023
    SoC placement with GANs · chip-design optimization

Projects

claude-devtoolsCreated the open-source devtool that reconstructs what Claude Code hides. 3.5K★, 90K+ downloads.Desk of EinsteinCo-founded an infinite-canvas workspace with a Figma-class extension platform.

Education

  • Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)B.S., Electronic & Electrical EngineeringGPA 4.3 / 4.5 · Major 4.47 / 4.5Mar 2019 – Feb 2027 (expected)