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Jaejun Jeon


He has been living in the Seattle area since May 2018. He works full-time at a pharmaceutical company half the week. His hobbies are watching sports on TV, hiking, and jogging. He has recently become addicted to bouldering.

(Updated August 2023)


Stories from This Author

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Software Engineer Utako Kase - I want to be a role model for female engineers - Part 2

Sept. 1, 2023 • Jaejun Jeon

Read Part 1 >> What is a software engineer's job? Utako works as a software engineer in the AWS networking department at Amazon. Since joining the company three years ago, she has steadily built her career and was promoted in the summer of 2022. When you hear the term "software engineer," you might imagine someone sitting in front of a computer writing code all day, but he says the work content varies greatly depending on the team you belong to …

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Software Engineer Utako Kase - I want to be a role model for female engineers - Part 1

Aug. 31, 2023 • Jaejun Jeon

Despite her extremely busy career as a software engineer, Kase Utako is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of engineers. We had the opportunity to talk to her about her journey to job hunting, her work at her current workplace, and her thoughts on future engineers. * * * * * I became obsessed with programming in high school Utako says that from an early age she loved pressing buttons on TV remote controls and radios, and by the time …

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