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Informatics Lauren Appelbaum, ’13, is a technical editor at Amazon Web Services after a few years as a technical writer . Dylan Babbs, ’17, is working as a product designer at Uber . Hamed Barahimi, ’11, is the IT director for Inpatient Systems & Services at Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, California . He got his master’s from the UW in Health Informatics and Health Information Management in 2017 . Drew Before, ’17, is working as a lead front-end developer at Nintendo . He’s working on rebuilding Nintendo .com from the ground up to support an integrated e-commerce store . Andrey Butenko, ’21, is working as a software developer at Amazon Web Services . He also volunteers as a Python instructor with the Microsoft TEALS Program . Eric Cohen, ’21, is an operations associate at Fraym, a geospatial data science company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia . Michael Cohen, ’12, is a software development manager at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure . Nina Dang, ’15, is working at Asana in San Francisco . Greyson Fields, ’21, is working as a product manager at VMware on the Cloud Commerce team . Peter Freschi, ’17, celebrated his 4-year anniversary working at Qualtrics . He was recently promoted to senior software test engineer . Godgiven Grogan, ’20, reported starting on her MBA at Washington State 34
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Muhammad Hussain, ’19, is working at Salesforce as a technical architect .
Atinder Saini, ’16, is at OpenTable, where he has been building products since 2019 . He gained hands-on experience as a product manager and product/UX designer over the past five years .
Liz Johnke, ’10, was working as a principal product designer at Boeing, leading the UX team for the Manufacturing Operations Management Tool Suite, supporting 90,000 global factory workers . Liz is a Boeing associate technical fellow and the first woman to earn the designation for UX design and design thinking at Boeing . Shaarika Kaul, ’19, is working as a marketing data analyst at Visa . She is also working on the second book in the “Mindful Mansi” series with her co-author . She still plays cello, sings, and models for South Asian designers . Locksley Kolakowski, ’21, joined Accenture as a software architect analyst . She started the online MSIM program this fall with her two siblings, who are also Informatics alumni . Her twin sister is working at Avanade and her brother at Amazon . Jacob Leighty, ’16, is working as a hybrid UX designer/software engineer at T-Mobile . Kevin Ly, ’16, is a program manager for Facebook and Instagram Shops . Lilian Mburu, ’20, is working in downtown Boston at Mass General Hospital, in its oncology department as a system design engineer . She reports that she misses Seattle most days, but Boston is growing on her . Matthew Mun, ’21, is working for Amazon as a software development engineer . Katherine Root, ’12, is working as the director of design at Mighty Networks, a
Mikala Salley, ’12, is working as a quality assurance engineer at Amazon . Mikala is a Seattle Sounders supporter and outdoor enthusiast . Kecheng Sun, ’20, started as a UX designer at PwC’s Experience Center . He was relocating to Chicago to start his new journey following the completion of a master’s degree . Ashmann Syngle, ’21, is working as a software engineer at HBO Max . Erik Thomas-Hommer, ’21, is working as a software developer at Amazon while trying to start a hospitality SaaS company on the side . Caleb Thorsteinson, ’16, is working as a software engineer, building real-time translation systems at Amazon . Andrew Vitollo, ’11, is a senior product manager at Trusona, working on a usable and secure solution to solve the problems associated with using passwords on the internet . Nicholas Xu, ’21, is working as a program manager at Microsoft . Jessie Zhang, ’17, is a student in the MS in Human Centered Design & Engineering program at the University of Washington .
MLIS Kristina J. Alayan, MLIS Law ’10, was appointed associate dean for library & technology and associate law school
