OVERVIEW: • Versatile developer with leveraged academic experience in natural language • Comfortable with full stack work; thrives in a polyglot environment • Superior analytical, communication, and organization skills • Recognized for excellence in leadership, teaching, and scholastic achievement TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE: • Back-End: Java, Ruby, Haskell, Prolog, Python, C/C++, MySQL • Front-End: JavaScript, PHP, Rails, HTML, CSS, Drupal, WordPress • Numerical: R, MATLAB • IDE/Tool: Eclipse, RubyMine, PHPStorm, Git • Environment: Mac, Linux PROFESSIONAL PROFILE: Versatility and Professional Maturity • Front-end and back-end work in over a dozen languages • Comfortable picking up new technologies • Consistent high performance for experience level • Work experience in multiple fields Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving • Honed skills through graduate education and academic research • Developed curricula for 6 university courses (later adopted by other faculty) Oral and Written Communication • Wrote clear technical documents for onboarding new hires and detailing project features • Taught university courses for 8 years; presented at 22 international venues • Won a teaching award; nominated for a second • Published over 20 conference papers, articles, book chapters, reviews, and theses Teamwork and Leadership • Recognized as an Outstanding Student Leader at UBC • Served on 3 academic committees; part of 7 collaborative research projects • Supervised and mentored 18 teaching assistants and tutor markers

Software Development Engineer @ • Full-stack web development (Java, Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, HTML/CSS) From June 2015 to Present (6 months) Vancouver, Canada AreaComputer Science Student @ • Bachelor of Computer Science (B.C.S.) degree From September 2012 to May 2015 (2 years 9 months) Software Development Engineer Intern @ • Front-end (Ruby on Rails, JavaScript) and back-end development (Java) • Built an internal tool for accountants to view/persist JSON config elements • Responsible for requirement-gathering, design, implementation, testing From May 2014 to August 2014 (4 months) Junior Software Developer @ • NSERC-USRA funded position • Back-end development (Java), testing/QA, technical analysis, and technical writing • Focused on connectivity to ALM repositories over REST and SOAP APIs • Conducted technical analysis of external REST APIs for software integration From January 2014 to April 2014 (4 months) Web Communications Assistant @ • Web development in Drupal and WordPress with custom HTML and CSS From May 2013 to August 2013 (4 months) Sessional Instructor @ From September 2012 to December 2012 (4 months) Assistant Professor, Limited Term @ From September 2011 to August 2012 (1 year) Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow @ From August 2009 to July 2011 (2 years) Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant @ From August 2004 to May 2009 (4 years 10 months)

B.C.S., Computer Science, Overall GPA: 91% @ The University of British Columbia / UBC From 2012 to 2015 M.A., Ph.D., Linguistics @ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill From 2003 to 2009 B.A., Psychology, Overall GPA: 3.865 @ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill From 1997 to 2001 Susannah Kirby is skilled in: Software Engineering, Object Oriented Design, Java, Ruby on Rails, Python, C++, R, HTML, LaTeX, JavaScript, Android Development, CSS, Technical Writing, Eclipse, Git