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Austin Hutchinson
Informatics, 2018
In 2022, Austin started at Microsoft as a Software Engineer II working on the Office Suite.
Joshua Mielke
Informatics, 2018
Joshua moved to Los Angeles to one of the hubs of space exploration and development and joined Boeing, working in the Phantom Works division. He works in the Space & Intelligence Systems Special Technology Integration team as a software engineer, focusing on developing resilient space systems that can survive the natural and geopolitical environment of space.
Cindy Nguyen
Informatics, 2018
After graduation, Cindy moved to the Bay Area to work as a UI engineer. A few months later, she moved to a hyper-growth startup company as a full-stack engineer. The foundations she learned at the iSchool helped her accelerate her learning and overcome hard challenges each day at work.
Jonathan Phan
Informatics, 2018
Jonathan is working at Comcast as a Kubernetes administrator for its development teams. He gets the chance to work on some open-source software, particularly Kuberhealthy, a synthetic testing framework for Kubernetes clusters.
You can find the project at https://github.com/Comcast/kuberhealthy and they are having a talk at KubeCon this year: https://sched.co/UaXs
Nick Polsin
Informatics, 2018
After graduating, Nick moved to New York City to work for NBCUniversal in a rotation program, with positions in cybersecurity, network engineering, and cloud infrastructure. Nick was recently promoted to a new role as a cloud solutions architect.
Saralyn Santos
Informatics, 2018
Saralyn started in the Human Centered Design and Engineering master's program this fall. She also recently started working as the STEM engagement coordinator at the University of Washington Pipeline Project, working with youth in rural and tribal communities to encourage them to study STEM and pursue higher education.
Anushree Shukla
Informatics, 2018
After graduation, Anushree attended the Grace Hopper conference, representing the iSchool and taking part in the HCI Reviewer Committee in Houston.
Nancy Tran
Informatics, 2018
As of 2024, Nancy was a senior product designer at Carina, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization partnered with home care and child care unions, government entities, and home care agencies. She had recently led efforts to improve web accessibility at Carina through WCAG 2.0 conformance, and planning to get certified as a CPACC, WAS, and eventually CPWA through IAAP in the future.
Tara Wilson
Informatics, 2018
Tara celebrated her marriage to Luis Naranjo, Informatics '17, in May 2023.
Jingyu Yang
Informatics, 2018
Jingyu is working at Microsoft in Redmond on a custom security tools team as a software engineer.