Anna Wawrzyniak
Anna Wawrzyniak
Staff Software Engineer
Twitter
Anna Wawrzyniak is a Staff Software Engineer at Twitter. She currently leads one of the Twitter’s big-data projects. Anna has over 10 years of engineering experience, including 7 years at Microsoft in Server & Tools division, where she worked on NoSQL database query engine, distributed systems in SQL Azure, and language tools for SQL Server. She particularly enjoys solving problems that involve data storage, compilers, query processing, data compression and complex algorithms. Anna moved to Seattle from Poland, where she graduated from University of Wroclaw with a Master’s degree in Computer Science.
Cher Rowland Henton
Owner
WiTest Inc
Cher is currently the owner of WiTest Inc, a telecommunications engineering firm located in Bellevue, WA. Through WiTest, product companies are supported to develop and deliver new innovations to the top US cellular service providers. Cher has 20 years’ experience in the wireless industry including positions at Hewlett Packard, Agilent, T-Mobile, and Anritsu. Most non-working hours are spent supporting studies and athletic endeavors of her 2 elementary aged boys. Executive Development Program, Foster School of Business, Un Wa 2012; MS Electrical Engineering, Stanford University 2001; BSEE The Ohio State University 1997
Evgeny Goldin
Senior Software Engineer II
Uber
Evgeny Goldin brings 20 years of experience in software development to the Bellevue College. His current title is a Senior Software Engineer II at Uber Freight. Previously he worked for Thomson Reuters, JetBrains, Spotify, and Amazon (AWS). Upon earning his degree in Computer Engineering from Technion, he worked in Israel, Germany, and Sweden, and was later recruited by Amazon, which has brought him to the USA. His main professional interests include scalable and resilient cloud architectures, operational excellence, and leadership. Evgeny hopes to bring his vast experience and interests in all things software, technologies and modern tools to this Board. He’s a father to a 7 years old son, a proud Camaro owner, and a passionate traveler. Evgeny’s full profile is available at http://goldin.us/.
Marek Brejl
Founder
Coding with Kids
Marek has spent over 15 years in the software industry – from pioneering automated 3D disease detections algorithms for radiology, to leading large multi-national software development teams at Microsoft. Marek now leads Coding with Kids full-time and is dedicated to building the best coding education program for children in the country. Marek has two elementary school age children who are becoming coders of their own. Marek is a climber and a hiker, and has travelled around the globe.
Rafael Fernandez
Engineering Manager
Google
Rafael is an Engineering Manager in Google Cloud Platform. Rafael’s interests are in data processing, distributed systems, and parallel computing. Rafael has 7 years of industry experience, and has taught Computer Science classes at high school and college levels. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Portland State University.
Thomas Ball
Research Manager
Microsoft Research
Thomas (Tom) Ball is a principal researcher and manager at Microsoft Research. Tom initiated the influential SLAM software model-checking project with Sriram Rajamani, which led to the creation of the Static Driver Verifier tool for finding defects in Windows device drivers. Tom is a 2011 ACM Fellow for “contributions to software analysis and defect detection.” As a manager, he has nurtured research areas such as automated theorem proving, program testing/verification, and empirical software engineering. His current focus is CS education and the Microsoft MakeCode platform for programming with physical computing (www.makecode.com).
Torsten Grabs
Director
Snowflake
Torsten currently serves as Director of Product Management for Snowflake where he oversees product management for its newly founded office in Bellevue, WA. A focus area of Torsten’s work is Snowflake’s developer platform and integration with developer ecosystems such as Spark. Another key priority for Torsten is growing the Snowflake team in Bellevue, WA. Torsten also teaches cloud databases at the University of Washington in Seattle. Before joining Snowflake, Torsten spent more than a decade at Microsoft in the SQL Server product group in Redmond, WA, serving in different roles in software development and product management. Considering himself a “database person”, Torsten holds a PhD in computer science from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland.
Last Updated March 14, 2022