Eric Choi

Eric Choi has a diverse work experience spanning over 15 years. Eric started their career as a Co-founder of Klicklic, a privacy-oriented photo sharing website, where they also served as a back-end software developer and sysadmin. After that, Eric worked as a Student System Administrator at the University of Washington VLSI labs, where they were responsible for installing, configuring, and administering various operating systems and network infrastructure.

In 2009, Eric joined Microsoft as a Software Engineer, focusing on Windows App Store web services and app recommendations. Eric played a vital role in the design, implementation, and deployment of large-scale web services for multiple versions of Windows. Eric worked in this role until 2016.

Following their tenure at Microsoft, Eric joined Pawprint Inc. as a Chief Architect. In this role, they designed and implemented backend systems, with a primary focus on data ingestion, processing, and presentation. Eric paid particular attention to reliability, performance, and scalability. Eric held this position until 2020.

Currently, Eric serves as a Founding Engineer at Snout, a company they co-founded. Their responsibilities in this role are not specified, but it is clear that they played a significant role in the company's early stages. Additionally, Eric held the position of Chief Architect at Snout from 2020 to 2023.

Overall, Eric Choi's work experience demonstrates their expertise in software engineering, system administration, and architectural design. Eric has demonstrated their skills in various roles, including co-founder, software engineer, and chief architect, in both small startups and large corporations like Microsoft.

Eric Choi obtained a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington from 2004 to 2007. During this time, they also obtained an additional certification as a Microsoft Certified Professional (Installing, configuring and administering Windows 2000) from Microsoft in May 2001. Eric then pursued a Master of Science in Computer Science (Systems) at Stanford University from 2007 to 2009. In May 2003, they acquired another certification as a Cisco Certified Network Associate from Cisco Systems.