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Alexander Bell-Towne
Informatics, 2017
Alexander is working as a software engineer at Square Inc. in New York City. He moved to New York in 2019 after spending a year working in Square's San Francisco office. His original employer, Weebly, was acquired by Square in May 2018.
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/
Srijan Bhushan
MSIM, 2017
Srijan is working as a data scientist at Oracle Data Cloud.
Jennifer Brady
MLIS, 2017
Jennifer followed her MLIS with her Doctorate of Education at Lindenwood University in Higher Education Administration and Instructional Design. As of 2022, she was working as the Creighton University Head Librarian for the Research & Instruction Department.
Amelia Burger
Informatics, 2017
Amelia is working as a software engineer at Facebook in Seattle. She previously worked at Liberty Mutual.
Soutik Chakraborty
MSIM, 2017
Soutik is working at Apple as a data scientist and helping the streaming media team use data to make more informed decisions. The work impacts billions of Apple users across all its major platforms, such as iOS, tvOS and macOS.
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.
Ashley Farley
MLIS, 2017
Ashley has transitioned from an internship to a staff position at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She is an Associate Officer of Knowledge & Research services, focusing on open access initiatives and advocacy at the foundation. She is also keeping her Capstone project, FlourishOA.org, alive, which provides scholarly authors comparable data on journals article processing charges, coupled with impact data.