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title: "John Ko - Staff Engineer in Los Angeles | Tal"
description: "Meet John Ko, Software Engineer based in Los Angeles. AI stack includes claude code, cursor, and deepseek."
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# John Ko on Tal

## Headline

Software Engineer

## Location

Los Angeles

## AI stack

claude code

cursor

deepseek

gemini

hugging face

## Work experience

Staff Engineer at The Daily Beast, Oct 2025 \- Present · 1 yr

Lead Software Engineer at World of Good Brands, May 2023 \- Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Santa Monica, California, United States, Leaf Group Media Brands is now World of Good Brands

Software Engineer at Leaf Group, Jan 2017 \- Nov 2025 · 8 yrs 11 mos

Software Engineer Intern at Demand Media, Jun 2015 \- Sep 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

## Education

Bachelor of Science \(B\.S\.\), Computer Science, UC Irvine

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