Kristen Widman
Software Engineer at 23andMe
Bellingham, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristen Widman is a software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building software at 23andMe. She blends a strong biomedical background with practical software craftsmanship, holding an MS in Bioengineering and a BS in Biological Sciences from Stanford. Her career spans biomedical software, test automation, and hardware-focused engineering, with roles at Heartflow where she automated testing for cardiovascular diagnostics, and at Voyage Medical where she contributed to catheter design and quality testing. Her early training at Hacker School sharpened her Python, networking, and project-based coding, including building a bittorrent client and web tools. Based in Bellingham, Washington, she brings cross-disciplinary perspective to deliver meaningful, data-driven software at the intersection of biology and technology. Kristen turns complex scientific requirements into reliable software solutions, combining hands-on programming with domain knowledge to impact real-world health outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Hacker SchoolStanford University
Github Skills (13)
web-api9
api8
api-blueprint8
rest8
python7
api-documentation7
openapi5
openapi35
swagger5
javascript5
redoc5
bitcoin4
bittorrent2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
kristenwidman/Bittorrenter
Oct 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:28 commits in 2 months
bittorrent-clientbittorrentpythonbitcoin
kristenwidman/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:16 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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