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Sean Ker
Informatics, 2017
Sean finished the Global Innovation Exchange dual-degree master's program and started in Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization as a software engineer.
Harsh Keswani
MSIM, 2017
Harsh joined Splunk Inc. in Seattle after interning there for almost a year, and is now working as a product manager for machine learning. The job is about expansion, implementation, and improvement of Splunk's machine learning offering across the organization. He gave a talk recently on "Prioritizing Anomalies using Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit" at Splunk's annual conference in Washington, D.C.
Harsh says, "UW iSchool has a prominent role to play in where I am today, and I am thankful to the professors, iSchool staff and UW as a whole for providing me the knowledge, honing my skills and making me part of the UW family."
Bryce Kolton
Informatics, 2017
Bryce is working as a software engineer at Mercedes-Benz R&D in Seattle, building new front-facing website frameworks and back-end server-sided vehicle data pipelines. He goes to Germany roughly twice a year to meet with engineers in Stuttgart and understand customer and business needs.
His current project is at the forefront of web frameworks and standards, working with Angular, React, Vue and more, targeting the latest browser specs and standards.
"Working here has been great; fantastic benefits, great teams, upper management that bends over backwards to empower us to do our jobs, and importantly, a great work-life balance. I'm proud to say that I work on this team!"
Beth Levin
MSIM, 2017
Beth is working as a technical writer at Microsoft for the Windows Trust content experience team.
Jyothirmayee Mocherla
MSIM, 2017
Jyothirmayee is working as a user experience researcher at Facebook. She is leveraging her skills as a mixed method researcher to improve the user experience of enterprise products at Facebook.
Amanda Nida
MLIS, 2017
Amanda has worked as a digital services librarian at the College of Western Idaho since 2018 and is co-chair of the ACRL Roundtable Discussion Planning Committee for ACRL.
Bree Norlander
MLIS, 2017
Bree co-authored a paper about the current state of Open Access publishing (https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3119v1). The opportunity to work on this paper came about through the Capstone work that she and Ashley Farley did with iSchool Assistant Professor Jevin West.
Litthideth Phansiri
Informatics, 2017
Litthideth is working as a Defensive Cyberspace Operation - Internal Defensive Measure (DCO-IDM) company as the Executive Officer. The company deals with cyber-threat hunting. Litthideth helps contribute by managing talent, teaching Object Orient Programming (Python and Java) and fundamentals of software development, and planning for the company's future.
Adam Sebetich
Informatics, 2017
Adam is a security, cloud and infrastructure consultant in Seattle, primarily working with clients to transform their data centers by moving and migrating to the cloud.
Kunal Arun Seth
MSIM, 2017
Kunal is working as a data insights manager at Adobe in Seattle, and is able to connect a passion for data with a love for photography. Kunal leads data analytics for Adobe Lightroom.