Jong Choi
Senior Software Engineer at PlanetRisk, Inc.
Sterling, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJong Choi is a senior software engineer with over 20 years of hands-on experience and a decade focused on geospatial systems, full-stack web services, and high-performance computing. He has led R&D for CUDA-based GPU parallel geospatial analytics and built Node.js/Mapnik/Leaflet pipelines and scoring engines for risk analysis deployed on Linux and AWS. His background spans low-level C/C++ and embedded work through modern JavaScript stacks, GIS tools (CartoDB, ArcMap, Mapbox), and enterprise .NET systems, enabling him to bridge legacy and cloud-native architectures. At DigitalGlobe he delivered award-winning geospatial services that won NGA contracts, and at PlanetRisk he drove prototype-to-production analytics for operational use. Known for pragmatic system design and a willingness to work across the entire stack, he brings deep domain knowledge in geospatial processing and performance optimization that often surfaces in novel GPU-accelerated solutions.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at George Mason University
English, Korean
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Github Skills (4)
machine-learning10
computational-geometry10
openstreetmap10
vector9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
ngageoint/hootenanny-ui
Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
Hootenanny UI is a submodule of the Hootennany vector conflation project.
Contributions:152 commits, 13 PRs, 156 pushes in 7 months
conflationsubmodulevector
ngageoint/hootenanny
Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
Hootenanny conflates multiple maps into a single seamless map.
Contributions:164 commits, 5 PRs, 163 pushes in 7 months
machine-learningseamlessmapcomputational-geometryconflation
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