Specialties
- Full-Stack Development
- Cloud Architecture
- Finding the Root Cause
- Games (video/board/tabletop)
Things Zoe has been doing
- Keeping code clean, systems healthy, and data accessible for a team of civic-minded technologists
- Developing tools to measure the impact of progressive programs
- Improving and codifying infrastructure to empower data-driven healthcare
- Building an app to help Colorado charter schools boost student attendance
- Digging into data to help organizations strengthen their messages and missions
- Writing an award-winning thesis on the effects of campaign spending on congressional elections
- Employing an analog ritual and multicolor pens to stay grounded in the day-to-day
Fun facts about Zoe
- Loves documentation, style guides, and clean code
- Earned a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford before pivoting to mission-driven tech work
- Appreciates the culture and theater arts scene in Chicago as “a big city that’s not New York”
- Performs occasional tarot card readings
I’m interested in the systems and mechanisms that shape peoples’ lives and livelihoods -- finding out where they are broken, and how we can fix them.
Zoe