Terian Koscik
Master's Student at San Francisco State University
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTerian Koscik is a multidisciplinary software engineer-turned-plant biologist with 11 years of experience building Ruby on Rails and JavaScript systems for teams at GitHub, Reverb, and education-focused projects. Currently pursuing an MS in Biology while teaching and researching plant parasitism, Terian blends backend engineering chops—contributing to projects like GitHub Classroom’s repo and assignment tooling—with hands-on plant collections work and climate-resilience data analysis. They have led trust-and-safety and SEO engineering efforts, mentored peers, and automated data pipelines and tests to improve reliability and performance. Comfortable in both fieldwork (seed collecting, inventories, label making) and production code, Terian leverages scripting and GIS skills to turn messy biological datasets into actionable insights. Known for curiosity (and a fondness for dole whips), they bridge disparate domains to deliver pragmatic, well-tested solutions at the intersection of software and botany.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Botany/Plant Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS Botany/Plant Biology at Oregon State UniversityMaster of Science - MS Biology, Master of Science - MS Biology at San Francisco State UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science East Asian Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science East Asian Studies at Grinnell CollegeJapanese Language, Japanese Language at Japan Society of Northern CaliforniaCertificate in Comics/Graphic Novels, Certificate in Comics/Graphic Novels at Independent Publishing Resource CenterComputer Science, Computer Science at Knox College
Japanese
Github Skills (6)
rails10
back-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
githubclassroom9
error-handling8
testing7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
github-education-resources/classroom
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
GitHub Classroom automates repository creation and access control, making it easy for teachers to distribute starter code and collect assignments on GitHub.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 commits, 29 PRs, 59 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Terian primarily worked on features related to managing private repository options and assignment forms within the GitHub Classroom application. Their contributions involved modifying code in several files, including views and services, to show plan information on the assignment form. The user also implemented error handling and memoization to improve performance. Furthermore, they fixed RuboCop issues and added tests to the service.
gitpodcollectgithub-classroomautomatescreation
spinecone/hello-world-bot
Sep 2015 - Jun 2019
A template for creating a Twitter bot that tweets lines of a text one at a time.
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 3 years 9 months
twitter-botlinesbottwitter-apitwitter
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