About KimchiBot
I’m a software developer from South Korea writing about a hobby project: building crypto trading bots with Python and AI coding tools (mainly Claude Code).
This blog is the engineering journal of that project. The goal is simple — write down what I tried, what broke, and what I learned, in enough detail that someone else trying the same thing has a head start.
What I Write About
- Bug write-ups — timezone bugs, PID lockfiles, exchange API quirks, and the kind of failures that only show up in production at 3 AM
- Strategy post-mortems — I’ve started six strategies. Most didn’t survive contact with reality. Each one has a story about why
- Tooling — using Claude Code (and ChatGPT) to write Python, debug Binance Futures integrations, and refactor across files
- Backtest engineering — why most backtests lie, and how I try to make mine lie a little less
Things I Don’t Write About
- Trading advice. I’m not qualified to give it and I don’t.
- “Get rich” promises. I’m building this as a learning project, not a business pitch.
- Signals or paid groups. I don’t sell anything from this site.
Why “KimchiBot”
“Kimchi premium” is crypto slang for the price gap between Korean exchanges and the rest of the world. I’m Korean and I write bots, so the name stuck.
Contact
Find me on X (@kimchibot_x) or GitHub. I read everything, even if I don’t always reply quickly.
This site is for educational and personal documentation purposes only. Nothing here is financial advice. Trading crypto with leverage carries real risk of loss — don’t trade money you can’t afford to lose.