JaehoonSon
I turn open research questions into working systems—evaluating new models, building agents, and shipping tools for real users.
Education
B.A. in Computer Science + Mathematics
GPA 3.83/4.0. Three-time YC and two-time DeepMind hackathon winner; member of Swarthmore Competitive Programming.
Experience
Software Engineer
Building internal AI coding tools, agent-ready development environments, and Tesla's first internal LLM benchmark suite for FSD and Digital Optimus.
Undergraduate AI Researcher
Built a self-improving agent pipeline that exceeded LoRA fine-tuning across three research workflows, alongside evaluation systems that improved performance by 40%.
Software Engineer Intern
Shipped LLM-assisted industrial data tools used by plant teams and cut average data retrieval time by more than 50%.
Software Engineer Intern
Built a content-rendering pipeline for 100,000+ users and helped deliver 30% faster load times with 50% less server usage.
Software Engineer Intern
Helped launch a credit card service, strengthen access controls, and increase customer onboarding by 15%.
Projects
Hermes
An AI customer intelligence platform that has sent 80,000+ personalized emails across coordinated outreach channels.
SlideBud
An agentic presentation platform with grounded research workflows, built for more than 10,000 users.
MakeYourWebsite
An AI website builder used by 8,000+ people to publish more than 900 live websites.