Jon DengWhy I’m joining Vannevar LabsThis spring, while working at Google, I went to a talk by Jonny Kim. Jonny is a Navy SEAL, Harvard Medical School graduate and astronaut.Dec 3, 2021Dec 3, 2021
Jon DengManager, not operatoOne of the unspoken things about being in the military is that your Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) is only a small part of your job…Nov 11, 20181Nov 11, 20181
Jon DengWhy I’m joining Credit KarmaIn Weapons of Math Destruction, a data scientist named Cathy O’Neil argues that behind the scenes, opaque algorithms make financial…Apr 5, 2018Apr 5, 2018
Jon DengNOBODY looks cool going through tough timesLast year, I sat down with the Breaking Into Startups Podcast to talk about how I went from being deployed to Iraq with the U.S. Army to…Mar 21, 2018Mar 21, 2018
Jon DengLow Level PainAdrian Ballinger, a mountain guide and alpine climber, talked to us about his #EverestNoFilter project, where he documented his attempt to…Sep 2, 2017Sep 2, 2017
Jon DengMy First 30 Days as a professional software engineerAfter leaving the Army, learning to program and moving to Los Angeles, I found my first software engineering job working on monetization…Apr 30, 20171Apr 30, 20171
Jon DenginWe’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/newsI just got a developer job at Snapchat.About a year ago, while deployed to Iraq as an Army officer, I started coding for fun. (You can read the whole story here.) Well, after a…Feb 16, 201729Feb 16, 201729
Jon Dengcase by case basisOn Monday, I met up with a friend at SFO and called an ride into San Francisco. Our driver, Sami, overheard us talking about Trump’s…Feb 4, 2017Feb 4, 2017
Jon DengVisual Password HashingI recently found this little Mozilla plugin that will hash every password you type into the browser into a set of colors. This seems like a…Jan 24, 2017Jan 24, 2017
Jon DengThe One Night It CountsI recently hung up my uniform for the last time.Dec 18, 2016Dec 18, 2016