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Kari is a Senior Engineering Manager at Webflow where she supports the product growth and billing & pricing teams. Kari has a passion for empowering others and diversifying the technology industry. She previously worked at Nordstrom as an Engineering Manager and Ada Developers Academy as Director of Education and Technology.

When she's not working or reading, Kari is probably having a dance party with her daughter, at the park with her dog Kylo, or writing songs about snacks.

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I'm a software engineer, and now a CTO, devoted to writing and helping others write user-oriented, performant, clean, well-tested code that enriches people's lives. At Strike Graph, we build solutions that help businesses quickly and successfully complete security audits. As an engineering leader, I'm committed to providing an inclusive, collaborative, productive culture that helps people grow.

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Richa is a software engineer at Microsoft, shipping products to millions of users every week.  She is a member of Ada's second graduating cohort.  Richa has over five years of work experience at startups and large corporations including Expedia and Moz. She has an insatiable appetite for learning and has advanced her career using her knack of making meaningful connections. Having benefited from excellent mentorship, she is paying it forward by mentoring aspiring engineers.  As an immigrant and passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion, Richa also serves on the Board of Directors for Northwest Immigrant Rights Project.

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Val is a Japanese/ESL teacher turned software engineer, currently working at the Allen Institute for Immunology. Val has spent most of her career writing Platforms-as-a-Service in Go, aiming to make the development experience easier for other devs and data scientists. A theme of her work at each job thus far has been “massive scale”, from huge image datasets and game servers used by thousands of simultaneous players around the world, to petabyte-level scientific pipeline analysis.

 

In her spare time Val enjoys immersion-based language-learning (currently working on French and Mandarin), drawing, Japanese pop culture, and laughing about poop with her stepkids.

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When faced with coordinating supply, communications, and registration across her family's two preschool Tehut discovered a passion for automation. That interest led her to Ada Developers Academy. Since graduating with Cohort 7 Tehut has had the opportunity to do freelance web development work for the Linux Foundation and worked on a cloud-y team at Getty Images before joining Hashicorp in 2019. Outside of tech Tehut is still an active contributor in the family business and can't wait to talk to you about Star Trek Deep Space Nine.

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Tamiko Terada is a Queer, Japanese immigrant and a Member of Technical Staff II at VMware working on cloud infrastucture with Kubernetes. Before Ada (Cohort 7~!), she was working in the nonprofit, music, and restaurant industries. As a Capricorn sun && Enneagram 4, she loves writing poetry, cooking/baking, animals, and epic board games.