Jerome Cho — Systems and Firmware Engineering

Experience

May 2026 — Present

Associate Software Engineer/Burnaby, BC

Designing, extending, and maintaining a vendor-distributed operating system for DNS, DHCP, and IP address management, supporting mission-critical applications.
Leading development of an automated triage tool to streamline analysis of high-severity support escalations.
Architecting and implementing automated DNSSEC trust anchor verification in C and Python, maintaining security and preventing outages during trust anchor rollovers.
Diagnosed and resolved high-priority customer cases by tracing root causes across the stack, from kernel firmware leaks to DNS/DHCP misconfigurations.

May 2025 — Apr 2026

Machine Learning Research Intern/Vancouver, BC

Extended and deployed a PyTorch-based deep generative model used across UBC research pipelines.
Engineered novel features to extract signal from high-noise, 10k+ dimensional data using unsupervised methods in Python and R.
Applied Bayesian models on an HPC cluster to accelerate cancer genomics analysis, with reproducible pipelines managed via Docker.

Aug 2022 — Dec 2025

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant/Vancouver, BC

Led labs and tutorials on C, POSIX APIs, process control, and memory management.
Guided students through debugging and memory analysis with gdb and Valgrind.
Earned a 92% favourability rating across 1000+ students for effectiveness and clarity.

Sep 2023 — Aug 2024

Software Developer Intern/Calgary, AB

Architected and developed features in Vue, TypeScript, and Firebase for SMART's flagship cloud product, designing components and a caching service for a team of 6.
Resolved critical security concerns on Chromium-based browsers, preserving support for 42.8k Google users.
Spearheaded integration across backend, embedded, and product teams as a core developer, increasing premium subscriptions by 30%.

Jan 2026 — Apr 2026

Real-time scheduling on a dual-core RP2040

C, C++, Raspberry Pi Pico, FreeRTOS

Placed 1st in a graduate-level real-time systems course, extending FreeRTOS on a dual-core RP2040 with multiprocessor support, resource management, and dynamic soft and hard real-time scheduling.
Implemented a semaphore-based stack sharing policy, cutting stack memory usage by 90% across 100+ tasks.
Validated real-time behaviour with C++ simulation tooling and extended a hardware-in-the-loop test harness, boosting coverage 6x and eliminating hours of manual testing.

Sep 2025 — Dec 2025

Multicore OS on ARMv8 (AArch64)

C, ARMv8 A64

Built a multicore operating system in C on ARMv8, implementing physical and virtual memory management, process spawning, IPC, and RPC.
Designed a cache-coherent multicore IPC protocol with socket-like semantics, enabling direct message transfer between processes on different cores with multiple concurrent senders and receivers.

Sep 2022 — Sep 2025

Machine Learning Tech Lead/Vancouver, BC

Managed and applied a $5,700 budget for a thermal-imaging approach to blueberry bruise detection.
Led project planning and weekly scrums for a team of 7, building data pipelines and object detection models.

Sep 2021 — Apr 2026

B.Sc. (Honours), Computer Science/Vancouver, BC