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Ever since creating a game on my calculator in high school, I’ve loved programming and the power it gives you to turn ideas into reality. There’s a special feeling when you hit “run” and all of your code comes together to become more than just symbols on a screen.
While getting degrees in Economics and Computer Science, I had summer internships at companies building health coaching programs and time tracking tools. Since college I have worked for 10 years as a programmer, mainly in the healthcare sphere. Before joining Atomic, I worked on a project at a major university hospital to create standards and technical infrastructure to accelerate adoption into practice of new medical research.
In my free time I enjoy playing games with friends, reading, listening to podcasts, teaching my cat tricks, and going on road trips.