Kiana Thatcher

Kiana Thatcher

Degrees

  • Master's Statistics and Data Science (Current)
    • University of Arizona
  • B.S. Mathematics and Computer Science
    • University of Arizona

Experience

Software Engineer | Imagine Learning | May 2023 to Current

  • Develop Flink stateful functions, using Java, that take in state education standards and student assessments and outputs students’ mastery of each education standard to elastic search.
  • Create pipeline between QA event buckets to QA database in Snowflake.

Front End Developer Intern | Credit One Bank | June 2022 to August 2022

  • Collaborated with a team of four interns to develop a website for filling out forms.
  • Utilized React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS to implement the website design and functionality.

Research Assistant | Dr. Stephen Kobourov | Department of Computer Science | University of Arizona | Aug 2020 to Jan 2023

  • Collaborated with team to develop the Global Research Query System (GRQS) and prepare manuscripts for review.
  • Developed queries and aggregated data using MongoDB.
  • Developed a website to display and visualize research data using Python Dash.

Awards

  • Galileo Circle Scholar | Department of Computer Science | 2021 and 2022
    • Recognizes high achieving students who are involved in research at the University of Arizona.
  • Lusk Scholarship | Department of Mathematics | 2022
    • Recognizes high achieving students in the mathematics department.