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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.
Peter Freschi
Informatics, 2017
As of 2021, Peter had celebrated his 4-year anniversary working at Qualtrics and had recently been promoted to Senior Software Test Engineer.
Matthew Goldman
MLIS, 2017
Matthew joined the Burgundy Farm Country Day School, an Independent School located in Alexandria, Virginia, as a technology support and integration specialist. In his role, Matthew is an educator and provides support for elementary and middle school education, including an opportunity to inspire and support hands-on, experimental learning through two new makerspace environments and to work with the tech/library "Bibliotech" team.
Haranshvir Gujral
MSIM, 2017
After graduating, Haranshvir had a desire to create meaningful software and grow small teams. He engaged with Structural.ai, a small Midwestern startup that aims to help employees unleash their true potential.
Joining a very small team of around 10 people, he led their product and user experience team, and helped create a powerful, multi-platform enterprise application that helps employees of organizations connect better with each other through a dynamic people directory, find internal opportunities that align with their career aspirations (called "Opportunities Marketplace"), and bring information locked away in siloed systems to give employees a great working experience.
For his next adventure, he took a role with Oracle to work on its second-generation Cloud Infrastructure to provide secure, scalable and cost-efficient cloud products to thousands of business around the world.
"Being back in the Seattle area and cloud technology space is exciting! I’m also growing my network by providing mentorship and career guidance to aspiring designers, to junior UXers, and in general to people who are passionate about pursuing a career in tech."
Stephanie Hallam
MLIS, 2017
Stephanie is working as an education information librarian at Southeast Missouri State University.
Andy Herman
MSIM, 2017
As of 2024, Andy was the Governance, Risk, and Compliance Lead at Meta, focusing on regulatory risk management for content safety. He had recently started a role as a guest faculty at the iSchool and was teaching INFO 310 for Autumn 2024.