Heidi Yoon
Senior Technical Designer at Catalyst Education
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolHeidi Yoon is a Senior Technical Designer with 11 years of experience bridging rigorous physical chemistry research and technical product development, currently shaping educational technology at Catalyst Education. A PhD chemist trained at University of Wisconsin–Madison and former visiting professor, she applies quantitative modeling, spectroscopy, and instrumentation expertise to solve complex data and design problems. As a former board member and volunteer with OpenAQ, she champions open environmental data and combines scientific rigor with pragmatic design for real-world impact. Colleagues value her ability to translate advanced analytical methods into clear, usable content and systems—often surfacing insights from experimental techniques like cavity ring-down spectroscopy that most designers never encounter.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physical Chemistry at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Science (SB), Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (SB), Chemistry at University of Chicago
Github Skills (11)
recovery6
earth5
python4
certificate3
metadata1
data-catalog1
api1
gis1
geospatial1
metadata-management1
scales1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AreteY/post-wildfire-recovery
Apr 2022 - Mar 2024
An Earth Lab Certificate project studying post-wildfire recovery.
Contributions:4 releases, 20 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 year 11 months
studyingpythonearthwildfirerecovery
AreteY/openaq.org
Aug 2019 - Oct 2021
The main website for OpenAQ
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
openaq
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