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Geek of the Week: Tableau’s Sarah Battersby finds her way in helping people use maps and spatial data

Sarah Battersby isn’t a “map person” — she doesn’t collect them in any real way or decorate her house with… Read More

Geek of the Week: Annee Ngo engages students with e-sports tied to education and real money

The popular belief may be that gaming and e-sports can serve to distract kids from focusing on what’s “really important,”… Read More

Geek of the Week: Info security pro Dan Schwalbe has a buzzworthy side job as ‘Dan the Bee Man’

During the day, in his job as the deputy chief information security officer for Farsight Security, Dan Schwalbe helps root… Read More

Geek of the Week: Limeade’s Tiff Napolitano is building better workplaces — starting with her own

Limeade is a Bellevue, Wash.-based software company focused on elevating the employee experience, helping to build great places to work… Read More

Geek of the Week: How lifelong entrepreneur Bob Crimmins’ little poker game ballooned to a 2,300-person startup group

There are plenty of stories of entrepreneurs who got their start in dorm rooms and garages, but how many can… Read More

Geek of the Week: Sandeep Nain walked away from tech and trekked into a passion for the outdoors

When he was working for the Indian technology company Infosys, back around 2005, Sandeep Nain was contemplating taking a year… Read More

Geek of the Week: Systima Technologies’ Taylor Banks is a ‘space addict’ hooked on what lies ahead

Taylor Banks is a self-confessed space addict. The CFO for Kirkland, Wash.-based Systima Technologies, Inc., manufacturers of systems and components… Read More

Geek of the Week: Researcher, writer, mom Amanda Sullivan pushes importance of STEM for young girls

As a young girl, Amanda Sullivan never met any female engineers or scientists. She was never encouraged to pursue a… Read More

Geek of the Week: Tom Bates is the brains behind the fireworks that burst over Seattle on July 4

For a guy who likes to blow stuff up, Tom Bates can come across as rather reserved. But every Fourth… Read More

Geek of the Week: Ganesh Shankar founded Portland’s RFPIO to improve the processes that wasted his time

Earlier in his career, Ganesh Shankar found himself surrounded by inefficient request for proposal (RFP) processes and time-consuming delays that… Read More

Geek of the Week: Amazon’s David Ham takes Pride in his work and his role with LGBTQ group glamazon

June is a busy month for David Ham. The senior video program manager at Amazon Web Services has plenty to… Read More

Geek of the Week: ‘Secret superpower’ helps guide Hannah Werbel’s success at the Univ. of Washington

Hannah Werbel’s impact at the University of Washington was recognized early at the school when she was awarded the President’s… Read More

Geek of the Week: A true people person, Caiman’s Marci Marra embraces rapid transformation

Before Marci Marra could seize on a career helping to transform people and organizations, she had to go through a… Read More

Geek of the Week: At 13, Pranav Karthik develops into true tech geek as he earns WWDC scholarship

Pranav Karthik was about 7 years old when he first got interested in coding, watching his mom work and being… Read More

Geek of the Week: John L. Scott CIO Teresa Duran takes on ever-moving demands of real estate tech

Teresa Duran began her career with roles as an organic and analytical chemist, but after a couple years she moved… Read More

Geek of the Week: Expedia Group’s Connie Chung navigates tough tech to solve travel headaches

Connie Chung loves tech and she loves travel. And in 11 years at Expedia Group, the Bellevue, Wash.-based travel technology… Read More

Geek of the Week: Elsa Moluf finds strength in mind and body as developer and competitive weightlifter

Elsa Moluf didn’t take the most traditional route into tech. With a degree in Chinese Studies, she decided to go… Read More

Geek of the Week: Mitali Palekar’s exceptional Univ. of Washington experience will inform tech career

In pursuit of a degree in computer science with interdisciplinary honors at the University of Washington, Mitali Palekar is a… Read More

Geek of the Week: Rudy Willingham is a cut above on Instagram, so he launched his own ad agency

Amid Instagram’s sea of sameness, Rudy Willingham of Seattle has managed to capture people’s attention with a unique art form… Read More

Geek of the Week: Kona Farry’s transit tracker maps buses, trains and ferries in the Seattle region

Kona Farry is a self-described transit geek and student at the University of Washington who set out to solve a… Read More

Geek of the Week: PopSmartKids founder Priyanka Raha helps families find meaningful screen time

After a 15-year career in the tech industry in which she’s been a software developer and a technical program manager,… Read More

Geek of the Week: Slalom’s Gina Bremer finds ingredients for success through data visualization

Gina Bremer is hungry for data. It’s what feeds the stories she helps tell as a business intelligence consultant with… Read More

Geek of the Week: Data whiz Nate Sterken of Placed is a football fanatic who caught the NFL’s attention

Nate Sterken loves football and he loves data. He’s developed such a deep understanding of the routes that wide receivers… Read More

Geek of the Week: Olga Zinoveva brings bright mind to Bright Machines and the future of automation

Bright Machines, a company working to transform manufacturing automation and efficiency, just launched a year ago. And software engineer Olga… Read More

Geek of the Week: Alaska Airlines CIO Charu Jain is leveraging tech to take the hassle out of travel

Charu Jain got her first exposure to technology as an intern at a company run by her father’s friend in… Read More

Geek of the Week: Amazon vet Jill Taplin applies lessons from tech giant at her tiny comic book shop

In the city where an online bookseller turned into a global tech giant, Jill Haick Taplin is trying to take some… Read More

Geek of the Week: An ocean lover on the surface, Parker MacCready’s unique science dives deeper

When a series of big snow events set sights on the Puget Sound region earlier this month, traditional weather forecasts… Read More

Geek of the Week: Allen Institute for AI researcher Daniel King already winning in quest to make world a better place

Daniel King already landed a spot on a winning team when he was selected as a Predoctoral Young Investigator at the… Read More

Geek of the Week: Air Force and Blue Origin vet Katherine Pratt aims high as a PhD candidate with an eye on data privacy

Katherine Pratt has a degree from MIT, she interned at Blue Origin, worked on fighter jets in the Air Force,… Read More

Geek of the Week: iSpot.tv’s Anthony Skinner tunes into shifting media landscape and which ads work

As the head of engineering and product at iSpot.tv — the Bellevue, Wash.-based television ad measurement and analytics company —… Read More