About Me
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Hello, I'm Terian Koscik. I am a botanist working at The Morton Arboretum. Before that, I was a senior software engineer at companies like Reverb and GitHub. As a botanist, I love plant records, parasitic plants, and helping people realize that plants are REALLY just as cool as animals. As a latent software engineer I love that 10 minutes of scripting can save 6 hours of clicking around on a spreadsheet.
Some more info about me:
I have taught programming and computer science concepts at Girls Inc., Saturday Academy, ChickTech, ClojureBridge, RailsBridge, and Django Girls.
I was a co-organizer for Django Girls PDX, and I wrote a little bit about our 3rd workshop here.
I have written tutorials focused on bringing fun and creativity to programming. I've presented them at conferences across the US including PyDX, RailsConf, Act-W, DjangoCon, and CodeHer. You can follow along on your own over here.
I made a comic book, When Anxiety Attacks, about how therapy can help with anxiety.
I've lived in Illinois, Iowa, Oregon, and California, which is still fewer states than my cat has lived in.
I studied computers at Grinnell College and plants at Oregon State University
I want to be fashionable like Sailor Neptune.
Here she is, the best cat:
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