Jihyeok Choi
Investor at Forward
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJihyeok Choi is a firmware and embedded systems engineer with 10 years of experience who now blends technical work with investing in San Jose. He has deep hands-on expertise building and debugging BMC and UFS firmware in C/C++ across OpenBMC and vendor platforms, and has delivered production firmware for AST2600-based systems and X12/X13/X14 boards. Prior roles span firmware test automation, SSD trace visualization, full-stack product engineering, and leading a coding education startup that reached thousands of users—demonstrating both product and operational leadership. He also applies ML and NLP skills to improve resume-to-job matching and has an MS in Artificial Intelligence, a background that helps him bridge low-level firmware challenges with data-driven software solutions. Notably, he couples system-level debugging experience (Trace32, FPGA board support) with web and tooling development, making him effective at shipping cross-domain engineering outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at San José State UniversityComputer science, Computer science at Inha University
English, Korean
Github Skills (2)
capstone6
css3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
saurus2/RedBlackTreeProject
Feb 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
choijihyeok/acmicpcStudy
Feb 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:88 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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