Summary
Amanda Vaughan is a Seattle-area software engineer and data scientist with eight years of experience building full-stack applications and production data pipelines, now developing public-health solutions at the Washington State Department of Health. She blends a strong academic foundation—MS in Data Science (3.9, President’s Honors) and a BS in Computer Science—with hands-on cloud and ETL engineering, having built Azure-based data warehouses, custom C# pipelines, and Angular monitoring GUIs for sensitive healthcare data. Amanda has experience translating technical needs into curriculum and certifications as a former graduate teaching assistant who integrated industry certs into an MSDS program and grew a data science club fourfold. Comfortable on both frontend and backend layers, she pairs careful data governance and on-call reliability with a curiosity for machine learning-driven features. Notably, she has a track record of turning complex, regulated datasets into actionable systems while keeping accessibility and stakeholder communication front and center.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Data Science, 3.9 - President's Honors, Master of Science - MS, Data Science, 3.9 - President's Honors at City University of Seattle
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.8 - Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.8 - Magna Cum Laude at Central Washington University
High School Diploma, 4.0, High School Diploma, 4.0 at Coupeville High School
English