Julia Geist is an award-winning software developer with a deep passion for social impact. Her production code is used daily by millions of users. In the past, she has worked as a software developer for Adobe, PlanGrid, and Platzi.

Experience

Internet ArchiveSoftware Engineer

2017 — Now

IDEO CoLabFellow

2018 — 2018

San Francisco Bay Area

Researched and prototyped around emerging technologies. Worked as a technologist, product developer, designer, and researcher throughout different projects over the fellowship.

PlanGridiOS Intern

2017 — 2017

San Francisco Bay Area

PlatziiOS Instructor

2016 — 2016

Taught +270,000 students how to build Instagram in Swift 2.3. Currently updating the course to Swift 3.

AdobeComputer Scientist Intern

2016 — 2016

San Francisco, California

Taught myself Node.JS to contribute to the Adobe Phonegap codebase, which is used daily by +800,000 developers. Added Cocoapod support for Cordova plugins and fixed bugs.