Jonathan Lai

Bio: Jonathan Lai is a Software Developer for the Graduate School of Education.  Prior to coming to Stanford, Jonathan was a developer at UC Berkeley's Research Administration and Compliance Department. As part of their Information Systems team, he worked on applications that aided in document management (Alfresco) and workflows (jBPM/Camunda) for research proposals and awards.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Plant Biology with a minor in Education from UC Davis. He also attended UCLA's School of Education & Information Studies, student taught in East LA and South Los Angeles, and served as Graduate Student Researcher at UCLA Lab School (née Corinne Seeds University Elementary School) . He has a wealth of experience in teaching and tutoring in various areas. From volunteering while in high school and tutoring in the Fruitvale District of East Oakland California, to doing Breakthrough Collaborative Sacramento for two summers during his undergraduate years, to student teaching in East LA with UCLA's SEIS CenterX TEP program, education is very near and dear to the heart.

Regardless of if a school is in an affluent or less affluent region, he offers valuable perspectives and insights on education. He appreciates technology but he likes people much much more—his heart is for education and the economic uplift of people all cultural and socioeconomic groups.

Expertise: Project Management, Concept Ideation, Public Speaking, Languages - en/es/cn, Zettelkasten, GenAI/LLM/Ollama, Blockchain/DLT/POW/POS, FERPA/HIPAA/PCI/Cybersecurity Compliance, Python, Javascript, PHP, Groovy/JVM, Wordpress, Drupal, Arch Linux, OpenBSD, Emacs/Neovim/Helix, Vercel/Netlify, AWS, GCP, GPL/MIT/Apache/BSD Intellectual Property IP conversations, and pragmatically all things F(L)OSS GNU and /r/selfhosting

Team member since: 2016