# Jinu Won

> Content Creator at Car-Free America

Location: Fullerton, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jinu

I care deeply about balancing development speed and quality while communicating the goals well with the team. Strong experience in Node.js especially with Nest.js microservices and relational DB.

## Work Experience
### Founder and Content Creator @ Car-Free America
Jan 2023 – Present
- Created Instragram reels, posts, and stories advocating for walkability, transit access, safer streets, abundant housing, and zoning reform
- Researched urban renewal, urban highway building, and their impact on American cities in the 20th and 21th century
- Shared quotes from seminal urban planning texts to political commentary

### Senior Software Engineer @ Measured Analytics and Insurance
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Remote
• Unified two submission workflows for consistent handling
• Automated eligibility determination
• Implemented REST API to offer clients access to cyber insurance platform
• Designed and implemented microservices in TypeScript and PostgreSQL to support dynamic frontend
rendering of surveys and eligibility rules
• Built microservices using event-driven Apache Kafka and NestJS
• Owned end-to-end development of public-facing API to enable quote requests from outside brokers
• Owned end-to-end development of merging two different quote processing workflows into one
• Owned translation of core insurance business logic into TypeScript code and ensuring correctness
• Promoted to Senior role after a year with company for excellent engineering contributions

### Research Assistant @ Department of Psychology, Columbia University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area
- Implement deep learning language models that performs memory tasks alongside humans to draw conclusions about how human and deep learning memory operate.

### Software Engineer @ CULPA
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York, United States
- Implement new CULPA (Columbia University Professor rating website) using MySQL for database, Flask for backend, and ReactJS for frontend.

### Software Engineer @ Columbia Social Entrepreneurship Group
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
- Analyze user data using Python's NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib to find useful patterns in data to assist non-profit clients
- Implement web apps and back-end apps to automate clients' tasks.

### DSI Scholar @ Data Science Institute, Columbia University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
- Implement CTPF recommendation system on ArXivLab platform
- Optimize the system to allow online training and efficient real-time recommendation
- Extend the algorithm to scale efficiently to large ArXiv database of research papers

### Software Engineering Intern @ Leysys Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
Back-end, server-side developer intern. Deployed back-end apps written in JavaScript on NodeJS framework. Employed MySQL and AWS S3 and EC2 for relational database design and server implementation.

### Research Intern @ UCLA Department of Linguistics
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
As a research intern, I conducted a research based on survey to compare the binomial ordering of Korean and English languages.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science, Linguistics
Columbia University

### high school diploma
Laguna Hills High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jinuwon
- GitHub: https://github.com/1jinwoo

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Source: https://flows.cv/jinu
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jinu/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-30