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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.
Stephen Richards
MLIS Law, 2018
In 2022, Stephen was appointed the director for the Marin County Law Library.
Benjamin Riesenberg
MLIS, 2018
Benjamin started a job as a metadata librarian in the University of Washington Libraries Cataloging and Metadata Services unit in October 2019.
Benjamin Riesenberg
MLIS, 2018
As of 2025, Benjamin left the UW Libraries at the end of April 2024 and started work as Digital Collections Metadata Librarian in the University of Oregon Libraries Digital Library Services unit on June 1, 2024.
Shalyn Rodriguez
MLIS, 2018
As of 2023, Shalyn was the Assistant Director of the New Lenox Public Library in New Lenox, IL.
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.
Avanti Shah
MSIM, 2018
In 2021, Avanti reported she was promoted to staff data scientist at Walmart Global Tech: "Have a project under patent pending. Expecting a baby next month. It’s been a great year!"
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.