Prior to joining Spartan Group, he worked at top web3 companies including StraitsX, Nethermind and Treehouse Finance, where he specialized in backend infrastructure and smart contract development. He is an active open source contributor and was a core member of the dev team for Velodrome, now the #1 decentralised exchange on Optimism by TVL.
Before his web3 days, Yong Kang was working extensively in data engineering, having co-founded a venture-backed AI start-up and working on analytics infrastructure at Rakuten.