Jonah Aragon
🌎 Minneapolis, MN • Email • LinkedIn • IMDb • GitHub • Media Appearances
I’m a content creator and digital rights advocate focused on helping people develop safe and sustainable ways to interact with technology and protect themselves online. Through my work on the Techlore YouTube channel, and as the founder of Privacy Guides, I strive to empower people to take control over their digital data and identity, and feel safe using technology in their daily lives. You can find me online during episodes of the Techlore Talks podcast I co-host, Techlore’s regular livestreams, and through my open-source work on GitHub.
Currently, I am a full-time pre-pharmacy student at the University of Minnesota. I am not actively seeking additional work at this time.
Work Experience
- Techlore 2021 - Present
- Techlore Talks Podcast Co-host
- Video research, writing, and review
- Service Administrator
- Hosting and management of discuss.techlore.tech community forum
- Techlore Talks Podcast Co-host
- MN School District 11Â 2020 - 2023
- Technology Paraeducator
- Empowered technology usage in a classroom environment
- Documented technical processes and procedures
- Supported and distributed Chromebooks to students during distance learning (2020)
- Technology Paraeducator
- Experimax 2018 - 2021
- Sr. IT Technician
- Specialized in Apple software and hardware
- Built and launched experimaxmn.com e-commerce platform
- Documented processes & trained new hires
- Sr. IT Technician
- Target 2017 - 2018
- Guest Services Team Member
- Trained new employees and guaranteed customer satisfaction
- Guest Services Team Member
- DigitalOcean 2015 - 2016
- Freelance Technical Writer
- Published eight tutorials on website and server administration-related topics
- Freelance Technical Writer
Education
- University of Minnesota (Full-Time) 2023 - 2025; PharmD ~2027
- Degree in Progress - Bachelor of Science, Biology
- Minnesota State (Part-Time) 2018 - 2022
- Associate of Arts, Political Science
Voluntary Work
- Privacy Guides 2020 - Present
- Project Lead
- 100K+ Monthly Unique Website Visitors
- GitHub Code Change Review and Community Management
- Research and Writing on Data Privacy and Security Topics
- Project Lead
- PrivacyTools Services 2019 - 2020
- I created and maintained a variety of free online services for the PrivacyTools community, including:
- Matrix, decentralized chat
- Mastodon, federated social networking
- Discourse, community forum
- WriteFreely, decentralized blogging platform
- I created and maintained a variety of free online services for the PrivacyTools community, including:
- OpenNICÂ 2016 - Present
- DNS Server Operator
- Developed and hosted project homepage at opennic.org.
Certifications
- CompTIA A+ (2019 - 2022)
- Jamf Certified Associate Version 10
- Apple Certified Mac Technician 2019
- Apple Certified iOS Technician 2019
- Google Certified Educator Level 1
- GoGuardian Teacher
Organizations
- Anoka-Hennepin Paraeducator Association 2021 - 2023
- Executive Board Member
- Local Cluster Lead Representative
Skills
- Digital Privacy
- Writing & Code Review
- Technical Writing
- Community Management
- Linux Administration
- CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu Server
- Git
- DNS
- Authoritative zone administration
- Recursive nameserver operation
- DNSSEC
- Windows Server
- ActiveDirectory, Group Policy, etc.
- Troubleshooting & Support
- WordPress
Educational Achievement
- ACT: 35 (99th percentile)
- AP Scholar Award
- AP Calculus AB: 5
- AP Computer Science A: 4
- AP World History: 4