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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).
Kevin Wong
Informatics, 2007
In 2013, Kevin was promoted to Director of Product Design at Livefyre, a growing startup located in the heart of the Bay Area that creates next-generation real-time experiences for publishers and marketers. He leads a team of visual and interaction designers who help the business by defining and building all of their products on the platform. Kevin is also an advisor for Groove, another startup, which focuses on enterprise sales enablement by integrating Salesforce data with Google Apps.
Chris Iremonger
Informatics, 2006
In 2015, Chris joined Google (again) in a leadership role in Android. He is currently a Technical Program Manager working on developer tools used to create mobile Apps.
From 2013 to 2015, Chris was a director of customer success at a growing mobile marketing startup in the Palo Alto, California. His team focused on technical integrations, marketing best practices, and a great customer journey.
From 2006 to 2009, Chris managed a number of teams at Google in technical sales focused on online, SMB, and educational sales. From 2009-2013, he lead operations teams focused on technical integrations and deployments for Google Apps and Chrome OS. At Google he was on the launch team for Google Apps, Chrome OS, and a number of enterprise focused technologies.
Andrew Martin
Informatics, 2006
Andrew earned a Master of Statistics from Stanford in 2012. More recently he started working in the Data Science team at Zillow as a statistical modeler for its home valuation algorithm, the Zestimate.