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Sam Bender
Informatics, 2017
Sam started a fitness business based on a mobile app that he built and designed. As of 2022, the company had received another round of funding and was featured in Geekwire: https://www.geekwire.com/2022/qa-with-former-nfl-star-doug-baldwin-about-his-new-role-as-ceo-of-a-seattle-healthcare-startup/
Amelia Burger
Informatics, 2017
Amelia is working as a software engineer at Facebook in Seattle. She previously worked at Liberty Mutual.
Chengsu Chen
Informatics, 2017
As of 2022, Chengsu is working as a Senior Product Designer at Block.
Derry Cheng
Informatics, 2017
As of 2022, Derry is a product manager at Google Cloud spearheading efforts to drive enterprise Linux revenue and adoption on Compute Engine.
Corey Cole
Informatics, 2017
Corey joined an early stage startup, "Hey Muse," which is creating an out-of-the-ordinary skill for Alexa on Amazon's Echo devices. "Hey Muse" is a social voice chat skill where people can come together around common interests and chat. For example, it could be used while watching live events, like a Seahawks game, and talking with friends or others who are also watching the same event.
Peter Freschi
Informatics, 2017
As of 2021, Peter had celebrated his 4-year anniversary working at Qualtrics and had recently been promoted to Senior Software Test Engineer.
Catherine Johnson
Informatics, 2017
As of 2024, Catherine was working at Khan Academy as a Senior Frontend Engineer.
Sean Ker
Informatics, 2017
Sean finished the Global Innovation Exchange dual-degree master's program and started in Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization as a software engineer.
Bryce Kolton
Informatics, 2017
Bryce is working as a software engineer at Mercedes-Benz R&D in Seattle, building new front-facing website frameworks and back-end server-sided vehicle data pipelines. He goes to Germany roughly twice a year to meet with engineers in Stuttgart and understand customer and business needs.
His current project is at the forefront of web frameworks and standards, working with Angular, React, Vue and more, targeting the latest browser specs and standards.
"Working here has been great; fantastic benefits, great teams, upper management that bends over backwards to empower us to do our jobs, and importantly, a great work-life balance. I'm proud to say that I work on this team!"
Gianni Mancinelli
Informatics, 2017
Gianni works in interaction design and user research at Bloomberg, primarily focused on designing News and Charts experiences on the Bloomberg Terminal.