Seoul, Republic of Korea / @toss

Sungyu Kang

Software engineer focused on React Native infrastructure, developer experience, and open source.

I build tools and architecture that help mobile teams ship React Native apps more safely, from brownfield infrastructure to vendor-lock-free OTA updates and WebView bridges.

Work Experiences

Frontend Platform Engineer

Viva Republica (Toss)

Dec 2024 - Present

React Native Framework Team

  • Build React Native brownfield infrastructure for Toss, a Korean fintech app used by roughly 20 million people. App.js Conf team talk
  • Chose React Native as the technical foundation and led the initial architecture for Apps In Toss, Toss's mini app business. Apps In Toss
  • Designed brick-module, a JSI-based native module system conceptually similar to Nitro Modules, with a screen-scoped module registry for brownfield React Native apps. brick-module
  • Built the independently bundled React Native runtime foundation for enterprise apps at Toss, including Apps In Toss, similar in shape to mobile microfrontend and super-app architectures. granite
  • Built the Granite Screen brownfield integration layer so internal iOS ViewControllers and Android Activities can host independently bundled React Native screens. granite-screen
  • Designed and implemented Granite Router, a React Navigation-based file-system type-safe router for independently bundled React Native runtimes. Granite Router guide

Software Developer

Brandazine (Inedit Corp.)

Jul 2022 - Nov 2024

  • Led the gradual migration of a Cordova Vue 2 app to a greenfield React Native codebase.
  • Designed the communication architecture between legacy WebView surfaces and React Native.
  • Built end-to-end React Native app experiences while incrementally replacing Cordova-based flows.

Projects

Hot Updater

1,594 stars / 159 forks

Vendor-lock-free OTA update ecosystem for React Native teams after CodePush's retirement, covering self-hostable packaging, rollout, rollback, release channels, and deployment adapters.

  • React Native
  • OTA
  • Self-hosted
  • TypeScript

Codex Relay

Codex Relay evidence
App Store Connect analytics showing 120K app units and 438 percent growth for Codex Relay from May 30 to Jun 29, 2026.

Local-first mobile companion for an AI coding workflow, including App Store release, real-time session streaming, and mobile UX around developer tools.

  • Codex
  • Local-first
  • Mobile
  • CLI

webview-bridge

444 stars / 20 forks

Fully type-safe bridge between React Native WebView and web applications, inspired by tRPC and designed with minimal external dependencies.

  • React Native
  • WebView
  • Type safety
  • State

Talks

Contributed open source