Summary
Amelia Read is a teaching-focused computer scientist and Ph.D. student at Colorado School of Mines with 11 years of academic experience and decades of industry work in database internals. She blends deep systems programming expertise—having contributed to Cloudscape/Apache Derby and worked on RDBMS and SQL standards at IBM, Sybase, and HP—with practical course development and public speaking. Comfortable across Java, C++, C and even Pascal, she teaches systems programming, databases, and cybersecurity while mentoring students through hands-on curricula. Her background includes tenured and adjunct faculty roles and a knack for modernizing pedagogy by adopting tools like GitHub and graph databases. Outside computing she’s an active fiber-arts teacher and author, a detail that reveals a methodical, craft-oriented approach to both code and instruction.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Developer, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Developer, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Master of Science (MS), Database Systems, Master of Science (MS), Database Systems at Stanford University