Kathyleen Beveridge:

Born in Vietnam, studied in Spain, moved to San Diego

Finance degree, MBA at USC

Finance major investment banker in Wells Fargo 1995-1996

After leaving finance industry joined technological industry

Joined Hp inc then Qualcomm and finally now works at Thermo Fisher scientific

All these companies want to make tech the world will benefit from.

Thermo fisher scientific is the world leader in serving science.

Kathyleen started her career life as a finance manager but she left that job to become more involved in engineering and computer science. Computer science helped Kathyleen discover her true calling in life and help develop something meaningful for the world.

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Kris Porter: software engineer

Studied in Livermore high school

Enroled at UCLA for electrical engineering degree

Learnt about communication sytems and electrical engineering

Networked infrastructural systems software

Finished graduate school -> became systems engineer at GPM -> joined NBC universal to work with communications software-> Intro to devops and transitioned to Qualcomm -> joined Twitter

Extra learning:

CCNA training

Machine learning

Python

Data structure algorithms and system design

Twitter university

Projects he worked on:

Starting media infrastructure for the 2012 olympic games

analytics infrastructure projects

Twitter project