Jefferson Choi
Full Stack Developer | Background in StartUps
Ruby on Rails | JavaScript
Jefferson
- NameJefferson Choi
- BirthdaySeptember 12, 1991
- LocationLos Angeles, CA
- Phone+1 (650) 796 0465
- Emailjeffersonchoi@gmail.com
- Websitewww.jeffersonchoi.com
My Skills
Web Design
- Ruby On Rails
- TDD/BDD
- Javascript
- HTML+CSS
- PostgreSQL
- AngularJS
Other Skills
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- SPSS
- Inquisit
Languages
- Cantonese
- Mandarin
- English
- Sign Language
About Me
Hi, My name is Jefferson...
I am a full stack developer with a psychology background, which means I am comfortable in building a good user-experience front-end, and analyzing the data to build a user-oriented back-end model. I ALSO ENJOY LEARNING!! The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know. I want to keep learning in my future job!
Working Experience
CarryOfMar 2015 - July 2015
Cofounder
Carryof is an online platform for international students who study in Los Angeles. We have developed a mobile application that has growing influence in the international students community in UCLA, USC, SMC and other universities around Los Angeles. We aim to provide a comprehensive information portal for freshmen/transfer students to learn the services around them. For example, our application provides nearby information on apartment rentals, furniture sales, car rentals, textbook trading and etc. My main responsibilities are contacting housing owners for potential partnership opportunity.
International Student Investment Group (ISIG) May 2014 - Apr 2015
IT Director
ISIG is a student-managed investment fund headquartered in New York. Its primary objective is to encourage professional investment communication, practices and educational panels among undergraduates, graduates and financial services professionals. My main responsibilities are creating and maintaining the official website (http://isigcapital.com), designing the cell phone application, managing databases and creating online surveys.
Education
Jul 2015
Web Development Immersive
General Assembly
WDI taught me how to learn. When I don’t understand something, I would go on the Internet and seek for some alternative explanations. If it doesn’t work, I would try to rephrase my understandings of the problem in my own words. The more I think about my question, the easier for me to find out the correct answer. After I built a few apps with JavaScript and Ruby on Rails, I actually figured out that building other apps with other programming languages are easy. I have a passion for honing my Ruby on Rails skills, and continuing to learn different programming languages as a growing developer.
Jan 2014
Psychology, B.A.
University Of California, Los Angeles
Psychology is a study of human mind and behavior. Not only can I understand more about myself, but I can also get a better understanding of people. Since I am also experienced in using Photoshop and Illustrator, the combined experience helps me to develop good user-experience skills when working on the front-end environment. My psychology background also allows me to create good surveys and analyze the research results using different programs such as Survey Monkey, Inquisit and SPSS. Not only can I design a detailed-oriented survey for users’ subconscious need, but I can also analyze the results and pay attention to users and clients’ needs and design the backend models to cater for their needs.
