Geek of the Week

Nov 10, 2017, 12:00 PM

Geek of the Week: Ex-Marine Solaire Sanderson combats new threats in Microsoft’s Cyber Defense Operations Center

As a signals intelligence analyst in the United States Marine Corps, Solaire Sanderson was deployed twice to Afghanistan and had… Read More

Oct 27, 2017, 12:15 PM

Geek of the Week: We crunched the numbers, and data scientist Alice Zhao is worth getting to know

It doesn’t take a data scientist to figure out that Seattle is the place to be. But a data scientist… Read More

Oct 20, 2017, 12:25 PM

Geek of the Week: With Microsoft, Spotify and Adobe behind him, Kevin Goldsmith finds a home again in Seattle at Avvo

Seattle’s evolving tech landscape can catch you by surprise, especially if you leave the city for a couple years and… Read More

Oct 13, 2017, 12:15 PM

Geek of the Week: Rakhi Voria found the startup life inside Microsoft on the Inside Sales team

Like many students looking for potential answers to where their career path might take them, Rakhi Voria was at a… Read More

Oct 6, 2017, 12:00 PM

Geek of the Week: Virginia Mason’s Barry Aaronson on the ‘sexy’ work he does in clinical informatics

Like many of our Geeks of the Week, Barry Aaronson was drawn to Seattle by the nearby nature and mountains.… Read More

Sep 29, 2017, 12:00 PM

Geek of the Week: Somebody buy Gus Lopez lunch — Amazon Restaurants chief has been at the company for 19 years

A lot has changed at Amazon over the years, but for 19 of them there has been one constant, and… Read More

Sep 22, 2017, 12:39 PM

Geek of the Week: Duke grad Alex Mariakakis finds a home at UW and a vision for continued success

Growing up in Chapel Hill, N.C., Alex Mariakakis got his first taste of research in a region known for its… Read More

Sep 15, 2017, 12:15 PM

Geek of the Week: Qumulo co-founder Neal Fachan should be filed under ‘startup success stories’

With 20 years of systems software experience under his belt, Neal Fachan has always loved building things and solving hard problems.… Read More

Sep 8, 2017, 12:30 PM

Geek of the Week: McKinstry’s Ash Awad puts his energy into sustainable buildings for the sake of future generations

Some of the more notable buildings and development projects in Seattle — from CenturyLink Field and Benaroya Hall to the… Read More

Sep 1, 2017, 12:00 PM

Geek of the Week: With ambitious head start, Zane Young heads to WSU to learn more about robotics

Zane Young loves to build things, and as an incoming freshman at Washington State University, he’s going to build on… Read More

Aug 25, 2017, 12:00 PM

Geek of the Week: ‘Magic: The Gathering’ head designer Mark Rosewater wouldn’t trade his 22 years at dream job

Mark Rosewater got into the trading card game “Magic: The Gathering” as a hobby when it was first released, back… Read More

Aug 18, 2017, 12:30 PM

Geek of the Week: Mystery solved! Accolade security director Mike Sheward wrote the book on digital forensics

Mike Sheward was born and raised “in the middle of nowhere” in the United Kingdom, but he found his second… Read More

Aug 11, 2017, 12:00 PM

Geek of the Week: Skye Gilbert takes PATH toward health equity — with side trips to mountain peaks

Skye Gilbert has been on a journey for years in search of answers to complex societal questions. At PATH, the… Read More

Aug 4, 2017, 12:00 PM

Geek of the Week: Ty Taylor solved the puzzle and found success with his indie video games

The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild sounds like an organization where scientists might gather to stare into telescopes. In fact, Quantum is… Read More

Jul 28, 2017, 12:00 PM

Geek of the Week: Futurist author Richard Yonck helps us better prepare for a rapidly changing world

Daydreaming about the future is one thing. Actually being an authority on what’s to come — or at least how… Read More

Jul 21, 2017, 12:24 PM

Geek of the Week: Face it, UW’s Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman is changing how we look at ourselves

Never forget a face. Or the people who are pioneering new ways to represent those faces in an era of… Read More

Jul 14, 2017, 12:09 PM

Geek of the Week: IT veteran Joe Hueffed might have the most iconic Seattle resume ever

Joe Hueffed grew up in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood and later graduated from Seattle University. From there, the IT veteran’s… Read More

Jul 7, 2017, 11:55 AM

Geek of the Week: Smartsheet’s Todd Fasullo scales his company’s application — and nearby mountains

Todd Fasullo has seen it all at Smartsheet. He joined the engineering team at the project and work management technology… Read More

Jun 30, 2017, 11:56 AM

Geek of the Week: Azure chief of staff Aseem Datar’s Microsoft success story leads to the cloud

Aseem Datar’s rise at Microsoft has taken him all the way to the cloud. In his 14 almost years at… Read More

Jun 23, 2017, 12:40 PM

Geek of the Week: Amazon Robotics’ Beth Marcus helps machines and humans work better together

After founding and leading several successful startups, Beth Marcus took a job with Amazon because it afforded a greater chance… Read More

Jun 16, 2017, 12:00 PM

Geek of the Week: Keith Smith is the reel deal as IT manager for Seattle International Film Festival

Keith Smith calls himself a “very creative individual” who has more than a decade of experience in various industries and… Read More

Jun 9, 2017, 11:30 AM

Geek of the Week: Former pro hockey player Todd Humphrey now plays for League, to simplify health benefits

As a former professional hockey player, Todd Humphrey has had his fair share of injuries, surgeries and hospital stays. The… Read More

Jun 2, 2017, 12:00 PM

Geek of the Week: Shyam Gollakota of Jeeva Wireless and UW is a pioneer in preserving power

Shyam Gollakota envisions a future in which his research and technological breakthroughs will transform computing as we know it. It’s… Read More

May 26, 2017, 10:45 AM

Geek of the Week: Game director Luke Smith finds his ‘Destiny’ with sequel to popular franchise

Luke Smith is all about community and connecting with people, whether it’s the friends he chats with in Slack or the… Read More

May 19, 2017, 12:43 PM

Geek of the Week: Monika Sengul-Jones is a Wikipedian-in-Residence, making libraries and the online encyclopedia ‘better together’

Monika Sengul-Jones is, more or less, she says, “a professional thinker.” With a background in social theory and a focus… Read More

May 12, 2017, 12:55 PM