Summary
Theia Vogel is a Seattle-based software developer with 14 years of experience building thoughtful, research-informed systems at the intersection of language, biology, and user analytics. Currently at SecureDNA Foundation, she brings a background in machine translation research and production engineering—having built analysis pipelines for tools like Project Bloom to improve meeting equity. Trained in linguistics at the University of Washington and educated in AI and parallel computing in high school, she blends computational linguistics intuition with pragmatic engineering. A Rust enthusiast who explores LLMs, computational biology, and unconventional games, she pairs technical curiosity with client-facing experience from years of freelancing. Outside work she knits and digests history podcasts, a habit that surfaces in her preference for elegant, well-documented code.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Linguistics at University of Washington
Artificial Intelligence, Parallel Computing, and Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Parallel Computing, and Virtual Reality at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
English