CSE 390L, Winter 2018
Tuesdays, 1:30-2:20, EEB 045
Instructors: Ed Lazowska / Dan Grossman
A one-credit (CR/NC) seminar series
The UW CSE Leadership Seminar Series, CSE 390L, is a one-credit (CR/NC) seminar series, primarily targeted at upper-division CSE undergraduates, that brings CSE alumni and friends to campus to describe how to be effective in a startup, small company, large company, or less common environment. Our guests will discuss topics such as:
Regular attendance, active participation. Please read up on the individual and his/her employer(s) in advance of each course session.
Send email to course members by using the address cse390l_wi18 at uw.edu.
The archive of email is available here.
Tuesdays, 1:30, EEB 045
Date
Room
Guest(s)
Experience
January 9
EEB 045
Recent alums:
Saloni Parikh, 2015 UW CSE B.S.,
2015 UW Public Health B.S.
Nick Shahan, 2014 UW CSE B.S.,
2016 UW CSE M.S.
Victoria Wagner, 2014 UW CSE B.S.
Nafundi (Contract Developer) -> DF/Net Research (Developer) ->
PicoBrew (Program Manager)
Starbucks (Intern) -> Microsoft (Intern) -> Google (Intern) -> Google
LinkedIn (Intern) -> Facebook (Intern) -> Tableau Software (Software
Engineer)
January 16
EEB 045
Armon Dadgar, 2011 UW CSE B.S.
Slides
kiip (SDE) -> HashiCorp (Co-Founder and CTO)
January 23
EEB 045
Veneta (Tashev) Angelova, 2007 UW CSE B.S.
Microsoft (SDET, SDE) -> Amazon (SDE) -> Google (iOS SWE)
January 30
EEB 045
Chris Dentel, 2013 UW CSE B.S.
Notes
Facebook (Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Software
Engineering Manager) -> Lyft (Software Engineering Manager)
February 6
EEB 045
Jenny Abrahamson, 2012 UW CSE B.S.,
2013 UW CSE M.S.
Google (Intern) -> Facebook (Intern) -> Facebook (Software Engineer) ->
a year of climbing and skiing
February 13
EEB 045
Anthony Wu, 2005 UW CSE B.S.
Intel (Intern) -> Varolii (Software Engineer) -> Nuance (via acquisition of
Varolii) -> Google/YouTube (Software Engineer, Tech Lead) ->
LearnSprout (Co-Founder and CTO) -> Apple (via acquisition of
LearnSprout)
February 20
EEB 045
Leilani Battle, 2011 UW CSE B.S.
Slides
Microsoft (Test Intern) -> Telenav (R&D Intern) -> Microsoft Research
(Research Intern) -> MIT (Ph.D.) -> UW CSE (Postdoctoral
Researcher) -> University of Maryland (faculty, starting
August 2018)
February 27
EEB 045
Stephanie Smallman, 2010 UW CSE B.S.,
2010 UW Spanish B.A.
Teaching in Spain -> Egraphs (Software Consultant) -> Redfin (Software
Developer)
March 6
EEB 045
Yaw Anokwa, 2007 UW CSE M.S.,
2012 UW CSE Ph.D.
Helene Martin, 2008 UW CSE B.S.
Slides
Intel (Research Scientist Intern) -> Partners in Health (Software Engineer) ->
Google (Software Engineer Intern) -> Nafundi (Founder)
Grameen Foundation (ICT Innovation Specialist) -> Garfield High School
(Computer Science Teacher) -> UW CSE (Lecturer) -> Independent
Consultant -> Algona Studios (CTO)