Independent Software Engineer — Sydney, AU

I build software that
founders can bet their business on

I'm Kim Ung — a solo developer who's been tinkering with computers since 2008 and building software professionally since 2020. I work directly with founders and technical leaders to build SaaS products, internal tools, and solid architecture. No layers, no handoffs.

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Projects

Things I've built

A selection of products and tools shipped for clients and myself — from internal dashboards to customer-facing SaaS.

HyFabric logo
live

HyFabric

High-performance network proxy engine built in Rust. Fully async architecture with lock-free concurrency, real-time admin dashboard, and automated node orchestration.

RustTokioQUICPostgreSQLWebSocket
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live

9sight Trading Bot

High-performance algorithmic and AI-driven trading engine. Rust core for low-latency math ops and data parsing, Python layer with PyTorch/transformers for ML models. Connects to crypto exchanges via CCXT, executes strategies with microsecond precision.

RustPythonPyTorchCCXTWebSocketpyo3
Minglab App logo
live

Minglab App

AI-powered Chinese name generator with cultural intelligence. Generates names across styles (classic, modern, poetic), analyzes character meanings, and provides premium certificates. Built with user authentication and shortlisting.

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in progress

AI Document Processor

Automated document intake system that extracts structured data from uploaded PDFs and images using vision models, then pushes clean records into the client's CRM.

Next.jsOpenAI VisionVercel AI SDK

Just joking around. Production is safe, I promise.

The universal engineer experience

const worksOnMyMachine = true;
const inProduction = false;
 
if (worksOnMyMachine && !inProduction) {
console.log("Ship it.");
} else {
console.log("Investigating...");
}

Every engineer knows that works_on_my_machine === true is the most dangerous boolean in software.

Track Record

Numbers that matter

I measure myself by outcomes, not activity.

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Years tinkering with tech

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Years professional software

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Projects delivered

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Missed deadlines

Trust

What others say

I let my work speak first, but here's what past clients have shared.

Kim brought the kind of engineering maturity we couldn't hire for in-house. He shipped fast without cutting corners.

CTO

Series A SaaS

Clear communication from start to finish. Kim told us what we needed to hear, not what we wanted to hear. That honesty saved us months.

Founder

Fintech Startup

We needed someone who could come in, understand our system, and improve it without breaking everything. Kim delivered exactly that.

VP Engineering

B2B Platform

Ready to build something that lasts?

Whether you're starting from scratch or need experienced eyes on an existing codebase, I'd like to hear from you.