John Choe

Principal Engineer

John Choe is a Principal Engineer. He designs and develops the software behind NewsGuard. Choe has 15+ years of developing software including the founders’ last venture, Journalism Online/Press+/Piano, Trans World Entertainment, CrowdTwist, Alex Interactive, iXL, etc.

Prior to joining NewsGuard, Choe was the Director of Platform Engineering at Trans World Entertainment where his team relaunched the e-commerce website, www.fye.com and its backend system in less than a year.

Choe is also a non-practicing attorney. He received his JD from Boston College Law School and his BA from Williams College.