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Andrew Smirnov
Informatics, 2011
Andrew is currently a Technical Solutions Engineer at Catchpoint, a web performance analytics startup based out of New York.
Osman Surkatty
Informatics, 2011
As of 2013, Osman was a security engineer for Amazon Web Services, working on their Elastic Cloud Computing product.
Rishi Talwar
Informatics, 2011
Rishi is the co-founder of Bottega8, a software consulting company.
Andrew Vitollo
Informatics, 2011
In 2021, Andrew reported working on a useable and secure solution to solve the problems associated with using passwords on the internet: "I am a Senior Product Manager at Trusona, and leading 12 engineers on product strategy around our platform, which has a component of mobile, front end, back end and partner with security and UX to delight our customers. We offer both a mobile app and browser native solution to authentication that doesn't require the use of passwords and instead uses your phones built-in security capabilities. I love the job and company and am definitely using my Informatics background as well as a decade of experience working with customers in various capacities."
Ephrem Yemru
Informatics, 2011
After almost five years in the consulting industry, Ephrem recently joined Nordstrom Inc. as an Information Security Senior Engineer. Within information security practice, Ephrem specifically focuses on Identity and Access Management.
Christopher Lam
Informatics, 2010
Christopher is a senior product designer at Pathstream, which is leading technology companies to build branded digital skills career programs delivered through college and university partnerships. Christopher has designed at award-winning companies such as GoodRx, Clover Health, TaskRabbit, Mozilla and Amazon. He is also hip-hop dancer and breakdancer for Ultimate Alliance Dance Company.
He has worked on projects at GoodRx that have been featured on news sources like the New York Times, Good Morning America, The Motley Fool, and ABC News.
His work has had impact such as winning a Webby for Best Health Website 2018 for Iodine.com; designing and building systems, processes, and products to scale as one of the first designers at Clover Health; helping TaskRabbit pivot and redesign their product; designing phone products at Mozilla; and working on Amazon products such as Amazon Prime Gifting, Amazon Cloud Player for Samsung Devices and Amazon Cloud Player for mobile at Amazon.
Braxton Ehle
Informatics, 2010
Braxton has been at Tableau since late 2014. After spending 2 1/2 years as a security engineer on the Information Security team, he moved over to the Product Security team in August 2017. He's now focusing on operational and infrastructure security for the Tableau's customer-facing products.
Liz Juhnke
Informatics, 2010
In January 2022, Liz joined The Home Depot as one of 11 UX Principals and also joined the HCDE External Advisory Board. Her most recent awards include a Boeing Special Innovation award, an HCDE DEI mini grant, Boeing Associate Technical Fellowship and a patent. Liz is married and has one 2-year-old son.
Alex King
Informatics, 2010
Alex has been part of many different businesses at Google, including Ads, Google Fiber, and Google[x]. He is currently a Product Manager on the Google Wifi team, working to build a wireless router that people love.
Daniel Kore
Informatics, 2010
Daniel is a senior product manager at T-Mobile, leading the device financing analytics group. He previously opened up a data & analytics consulting firm serving clients with their end-to-end reporting needs. Prior to that, he worked at Accenture, providing consulting services to Microsoft, Costco, Starwood Hotels, Boeing, Starbucks, and other small firms before settling at the new T-Mobile (after the sprint merger). He has two beautiful daughters (Melat & Selah) with his wife (Sally).