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Kristina Dahlberg
Informatics, 2009
In 2014, Kristina was promoted to Technical Accounting Manager at Atlassian, a pre-IPO software company in San Francisco. The company is known for JIRA, Confluence, HipChat, Bitbucket, and more. She focuses primarily on software revenue recognition, and her technical background (and double major in accounting) is extremely helpful as she works with the company to understand revenue streams, execute new contracts and drive changes to their systems.
Jennifer Rees
Informatics, 2009
Jennifer is working for Agfa Healthcare, a global leader in health-care IT solutions, as a workflow architect. Her work focuses on combining multiple, decentralized medical imaging systems into a single, converged platform.
Jason Wyttenbach
Informatics, 2009
Jason is Senior Operations Network Engineer for Ericsson, specializing in core LTE network systems.
Timothy Chen
Informatics, 2008
Timothy is a lead distributed systems engineer at Mesosphere, a startup in San Francisco, where he works on the datacenter operating system.
Dustin Hodge
Informatics, 2008
In 2014, Dustin returned to UW! He works as a UX Interaction Designer at the UW Office of Research Information Services.
Micah Huff
Informatics, 2008
Micah is working as the director, data engineering at Demandbase, leading a team charged with building out the company's core datasets and ensuring timely delivery of its daily warehouse data.
John Wulff
Informatics, 2008
John is the Senior Vice President of Software Development at a financial services company. His team builds financial advisory tools for financial planners and their clients.
Martin Nash
Informatics, 2007
In 2015, Martin started work as an iOS Developer at REI Previously he worked for Linea Photosharing, Shutterfly, and spent five years as an English teacher in Japan. Martin also teaches a series of courses for the UW's PCE iOS & Mac Application Development certificate program.
Brian Reyes
Informatics, 2007
Brian was employee No. 1 and product designer (2007-2013) for Seattle Startup PitchBook, which was awarded the Geekwire Deal of the Year for its acquisition by MorningStar for $225 million. PitchBook recently also showed up unexpectedly in an episode of "Silicon Valley."
Brian also built and launched The Shop website, a car and motorcycle enthusiast club known as "a country club for gearheads." Located in SoDo, the Shop features state-of-the-art tools, lifts, wash bays, people on staff to teach you how to restore cars, a state of the art VR simulator, and a new Ethan Stowell Restaurant called Derby,.
Brian has recently been asked to Community Manager and Chair of the Executive Committee for a new upcoming non-profit called IncludeGlobal founded by Jessica Eggert.
Currently, Brian works at Splunk as a UX & inclusion designer (which means a UX designer with an additional interest/focus on diversity and inclusion).
Brendan Ribera
Informatics, 2007
Brendan creates tech startups in Seattle at Madrona Venture Labs. Previously, he founded PaperKarma (acquired in 2013).