Kristen Widman
Software Engineer at 23andMe
Bellingham, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristen Widman is a software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building data-driven tools at 23andMe from her home base in Bellingham, Washington. Trained in biological sciences and bioengineering at Stanford, she pairs domain knowledge in life sciences with practical software skills—especially Python and test automation—to deliver meaningful, validated systems. Her background includes hands-on work in medical device engineering and automating diagnostic software testing at Heartflow, demonstrating comfort across hardware, data, and software boundaries. A Hacker School alum, she undertook intensive, project-based learning in Python and networking, producing tools like a BitTorrent client and link shortener during that time. Colleagues rely on her for turning complex requirements into reliable test suites and data pipelines. She’s equally at home parsing XML and writing MySQL queries as she is prototyping solutions in SolidWorks, reflecting an uncommon blend of engineering disciplines.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Hacker SchoolB.S., Biological Sciences, B.S., Biological Sciences at Stanford University
Github Skills (11)
api8
api-blueprint8
rest8
python7
api-documentation7
openapi5
swagger5
javascript5
redoc5
bitcoin4
bittorrent2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
kristenwidman/Bittorrenter
Oct 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:28 commits in 2 months
bittorrent-clientbittorrentpythonbitcoin
kristenwidman/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:16 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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