About Me

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Hello! I'm Jonathan Paek, thank you for visiting my site.

Education

• M.Sc., Computer Science | Georgia Tech (December 2022)
• B.Sc., Computer Science | UC Davis (June 2009)

Early History, Memory Lane

For nostalgia (childhood), maybe we've passed by sometimes in Menlo Park, and especially so along the vicinity of Ravenswood, 7-11, Caltrain Station, Library, & Keplers Bookstore.

• First console: Nintendo NES - Favorite: Zelda
• Childhood favorite books: Willa Wonka and the Glass Elevator, Tom Sawyer
• First time I saw code: BASIC, Apple Plus, 5.25 floppy
• First homepage built in '95: HTML, BBEdit, Dreamweaver user '98
• Cross-browser compatibility was no fun: <--[if IE] ... \MSIE
• First Browsers: Mosaic, Netscape, Search: Hotbot, Lycos, Webcrawler
• First Apple Use: Apple II, 5.25 floppy in grade-school
• First Machintosh Use: Apple SE
• First chat with A.I.: ELIZA
• First chat over internet: via telnet and later ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger
• First Home Internet: 32k/56k modem and after DSL
• First PC: 25mhz (33mhz over-clocked)
• First graphics card: Diamond Multimedia 4MB
• First favorite softwares: Oregon Trail, QuarkXPress, Screensavers, Planet Simulator
• First blog posts: Geocities, Xanga
• Learned ASP/VBScript, e-commerce
• Learned Windows Adminstration, IIS, SQL Server
• Learned Network configuration, TCP/IP, Subnet, Routers, NAT, File Server
• First Made Backup & Recovery: With Norton Ghost
• First network cabling: CAT-5 twisted pair wiring and crimping
• First solder: 8MB SIMM
• Ran a small FTP server and domain hosting (mostly for friends/family), used Plesk
• First server code - CGI-bin, hello world
• Perl, Assembly, C (Code Warrior)
• First programming classes in order: C, Assembly, Java, C++
• Winamp, Lime, Napster, good times
• MIDI and .txt collector
• Childhood PC games: Oregon Trail, Marathon, Starcraft, Counterstrike
• First distributed contribution: @SETI, are you out there?
• Favorite High School subject: AP Physics
• First installed linux distribution: Mandrake with many floppy disks

That's all I can think of in a single sitting. I hope you enjoyed, learned something, even better if you sparked an idea for something.

2009-2022

A short timeline since graduation

• (🎓 12/2022) Degree Awarded M.S. Computer Science

  Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

• (2019) LinkedIn Corporation

  Candidate Onboarding, APIs, Integrations

• (2016-2019) Samsung

  Internet of Things, Smart Home

• (2015) Samsung

  Internet of Things, Smart Home

• (2013-2015) Google with Vaco Technologies

  Payments, API, Partner Onboarding, Support

• (2010-2013) SpecialDeals / Payever

  Startup, AWS, Infra, Java, PHP, MySQL, Web Services, Android

• (2009-2010) Integrated Building Solutions

  Building Intelligence, Data Center, Monitoring & Control

• (🎓 2009) Degree Awarded B.S. Computer Science

  University of California, Davis, CA