Ana Santasheva
Graduate Student Researcher, Energy Modeling, Analysis & Controls
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAna Santasheva is an experienced software engineer and current graduate student researcher focused on grid capacity and climate resilience at UC Berkeley, combining 11 years of production engineering with academic energy systems research. Previously a backend/payments engineer at Coinbase across payments, infrastructure, cloud, and blockchain protocol teams, she has shipped critical payment systems at scale and rotated through diverse technical domains. Her career spans startups and established companies—founding a startup, building frontend and accessibility initiatives at Sequence, and contributing engineering and product work at Pixlee, Vidyard, 500px, and BlackBerry. Based in San Francisco with a Systems Design Engineering background from the University of Waterloo and an MS in Energy and Resources from Berkeley, she bridges software engineering, policy-aware energy research, and teaching. Outside of engineering she speaks at conferences, advocates for accessibility, and DJs—an uncommon blend that informs her user-centered approach to resilient systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD , Energy and Resources, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD , Energy and Resources at University of California, BerkeleyInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Bayview Secondary SchoolSystems Design Engineering, Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, French, Russian
Github Skills (21)
brave-browser8
brave8
linux8
windows8
muon8
javascript8
markdown7
jekyll7
ipfs7
browser7
macos7
programming-tools6
ruby6
electron6
cli5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
antiroyalty/ca-climate-action-initiative
Feb 2024 - Apr 2026
Contributions:88 pushes, 2 branches, 2 comments in 2 years 2 months
antiroyalty/antiroyalty.github.io
Oct 2020 - Mar 2026
Contributions:46 PRs, 87 pushes, 27 branches in 5 years 6 months
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