Anastasiya Osher
PHD Student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnastasiya Osher is a PhD student and multidisciplinary operator who blends applied physics, early-stage venture experience, and hands-on engineering skills across startups and academia. With nine years of experience, she has advised creator-focused platforms, sourced and diligenced hundreds of startups as a VC fellow, and rebuilt pitch decks and financial models to sharpen go-to-market narratives. Her technical foundation in C++, Bash, Linux, Python, and cloud tools complements practical engineering work—like containerizing benchmarking workflows—giving her credibility on both product and infrastructure decisions. She pairs rigorous scientific training in materials physics with business acumen from Haas’ BASE program to evaluate technology risk, market fit, and investor alignment. Notably, she has built a 600-firm investment database and authored white papers on metaverse and synthetic data impacts, accelerating strategic deal analysis. Fluent in Russian, English, and French, she thrives at the intersection of deep tech research and venture-backed commercialization.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Applied Physics with concentration in Material Science, Bachelor's degree, Applied Physics with concentration in Material Science at University of California, DavisBASE Program, A/A-, BASE Program, A/A- at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Russian, English, French
Github Skills (12)
integrate6
scale3
storage3
networking3
docker3
infrastructure2
devops2
kubernetes2
scale-out1
benchmark1
object-storage1
cloud-object-storage1
Github contributions (4)
Nexenta/nedge-swagger
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
Nexenta/nedge-cosbench
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes in 6 days
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