Nomination 🗳️
Nominee Name
Jaehoon (Ace) Shim
@aceshim
Short Personal Bio
Jaehoon Shim is the co-founder and CEO of Hopae. In 2021 Jaehoon and the team built COOV, the official blockchain-based COVID-19 vaccination credential system for South Korea. The system managed over 43M users daily and around 4 billion verifications with 86M edge agents nation-wide while using W3C DID and VCDM. COOV also successfully established international interoperability for mutual recognition with EU and Singapore. For his contributions, Jaehoon received commendation from the minister.
Jaehoon Shim, with a Computer Science BS from UIUC, brings experience from his time as a blockchain researcher at LG. As a founder and principal organizer of SSIMeetup Korea, he champions self-sovereign identity technologies. His work includes translating W3C's DID and VC specifications into Korean as an official version, reflecting his commitment and advocacy for a digital future.
Short Personal Pitch
I was elected to the TAC last year and have spent the past nine months service as Vice Chair, with focus on strengthening project quality, contributor engagement, and the overall technical direction of the OpenWallet Foundation.
During this term, my contribution have emphasized measurable and community-wide impact:
- Sponsoring 4 Growth stage projects, including SD-JWT-JS through OWF's first Lab-to-Growth promotion, now surpassing 4.2M downloads.
- Expanding the ecosystem by supporting the proposal of three new Lab projects, broadening the coverage of approaches and implementations.
- Participating actively in bi-weekly TAC meetings, project proposal reviews, and Board Meetings, ensuring maintainers' and contributors' perspectives are consistently represented.
A continued term on the TAC would focus on further elevating contributors and maintainers—ensuring their work receives visibility, their feedback informs direction, and their projects have the support needed to progress toward real-world adoption. My goal remains to help maintain a technically rigorous, well-governed, and contributor-centered foundation where impactful open-source work can thrive.
Nomination 🗳️
Nominee Name
Jaehoon (Ace) Shim
@aceshim
Short Personal Bio
Jaehoon Shim is the co-founder and CEO of Hopae. In 2021 Jaehoon and the team built COOV, the official blockchain-based COVID-19 vaccination credential system for South Korea. The system managed over 43M users daily and around 4 billion verifications with 86M edge agents nation-wide while using W3C DID and VCDM. COOV also successfully established international interoperability for mutual recognition with EU and Singapore. For his contributions, Jaehoon received commendation from the minister.
Jaehoon Shim, with a Computer Science BS from UIUC, brings experience from his time as a blockchain researcher at LG. As a founder and principal organizer of SSIMeetup Korea, he champions self-sovereign identity technologies. His work includes translating W3C's DID and VC specifications into Korean as an official version, reflecting his commitment and advocacy for a digital future.
Short Personal Pitch
I was elected to the TAC last year and have spent the past nine months service as Vice Chair, with focus on strengthening project quality, contributor engagement, and the overall technical direction of the OpenWallet Foundation.
During this term, my contribution have emphasized measurable and community-wide impact:
A continued term on the TAC would focus on further elevating contributors and maintainers—ensuring their work receives visibility, their feedback informs direction, and their projects have the support needed to progress toward real-world adoption. My goal remains to help maintain a technically rigorous, well-governed, and contributor-centered foundation where impactful open-source work can thrive.