I'm a software engineer with strong design and data visualization skills. I studied architecture and creative writing at Berkeley, worked at a tech incubator in Los Angeles for four and a half years (~3 years in business development, ~2 years in front-end development), and spent three months immersed in JavaScript at Hack Reactor. I'm currently building user interfaces for secure cloud-based applications at Kryptnostic. While programming is a relatively new pursuit for me, I've been on the web for most of my life, having taught myself HTML and CSS in the age of Geocities. To this day, I still rely heavily on HTML and CSS -- along with a metric ton of JavaScript. Thanks to my decades-long dabbling in web design and a host of other artistic pursuits, I've developed an obsession with details, mostly of the visual and syntactic sort. As such, I relentlessly tweak UIs until they achieve pixel perfection; I enjoy reading and writing modular, well-formatted code; and I identify typefaces out of habit. Beautiful typography makes me really happy. I like vanilla JS, rounded corners, bright colors, list comprehensions, regular expressions, graphs, and maps. My favorite area of programming is natural language processing. On a personal level, I love meeting and talking with people. Feel free to get in touch if you'd like to chat about anything mentioned above, as well as any of the following topics: civil rights, being a minority (visible or invisible) in tech, recycling, composting, education, homelessness, housing prices in the Bay Area, water conservation, volunteering, books, stories, music, grammar, armadillos, roller skates, and pickup trucks.

Software Engineer @ From June 2015 to Present (7 months)

Software Engineering @ Hack Reactor From 2015 to 2015 B.A., Architecture, Creative Writing @ UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design From 2006 to 2010 Stephanie Higa is skilled in: JavaScript, Google Analytics, Social Media, Website Development, Web Design, Front-end, Illustrator, Data Analysis, Adobe Creative Suite, InDesign, CSS, Data Visualization, Creative Writing, Editing, Event Planning