About Me

Hello! Welcome to my portfolio website. I'm Derek Kwon and I am a recent graduate from the College of William & Mary. I enjoy expressing myself and my imagination through code and regularly work on websites and games as passion projects. I'm currently actively looking for a full-time position as a full-stack web developer, data scientist, or cybersecurity engineer.

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Education

School: College of William & Mary

Dates: Jaunary 2022 - Jaunary 2025

Degree: Bachelor's in Science
Major: Computer Science
GPA: 3.60

Relevant Courses:

  • Data Structures
  • Intro to Software Development
  • Cyber and Info Security
  • Web Programming
  • Computer Graphics
  • Intro to Game Development
  • Reinforcement Learning

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Work Experience: Content Data Specialist Intern

Organization: Tesla Goverment

Location: Falls Church, VA

Dates: June 1st, 2023 - August 25th, 2023

Job Type: Temporary Internship

Reference: Caitriona Cobb @ caitriona.cobb@teslagovernment.com

Responsibilities & Achievements

  • Gained security training in handling classified information (FOUO, PII, CUI) to learn how to maintain confidentiality of company data
  • Wrote Python scripts and used pandas library to automate cleaning, filtering, and reformatting of maritime data so that it could be properly displayed on maps on company's information sharing site
  • Collaborated in a team on a natural language model to assign topic tags to foreign relations articles and won 2nd place in a company-wide hack-a-thon
  • Worked with a partner and used RStudio to make bubble plot visualizations for African foreign relations data in a data visualization competition that the company used to gather visualizations for Africa
  • Scraped data from both English and Korean online sources using Selenium and BeautifulSoup to add to company's database on North Korea

Projects

  • Java GUI Memory Game
  • Penetration Testing Labs
  • Web Programming Group Project
  • Game Development Group Project
  • Reinforcement Learning Final Project
  • First Portfolio Website
  • Personal Project: Solo Game in Development

Photos

Sophomore year of college

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