# Erika Y.

> engineer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/erikay

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Datadog
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States

### Engineer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States

### Cloud Engineer @ Nordstrom
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater Seattle Area

### CSE 14X Teaching Assistant @ University of Washington
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington
•	Led one hour weekly section with 24 students to teach and review content from lecture in Java.
•	Graded student work and aided with debugging student programs during two-hour weekly office hours in the Introductory Programming Lab.

### Software Engineer @ Nordstrom
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area

### Public Cloud Infrastructure Engineering Intern @ Nordstrom
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, Washington
•	Implemented program in Python (Boto3 SDK, AWS & GCP APIs) to monitor team usages of AWS and GCP resources, calculate utilization for resources, and notify teams to consequently cut unnecessary expenditures.
•	Launched an internal portal (Flask framework in Python) for individuals with valid Nordstrom credentials to view the metrics and utilization scores for individual public cloud resources.

### Developer Intern @ Swaggle
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area
Worked with the app development team for Swaggle, a mobile marketplace for men's fashion items. Main tasks and accomplishments include:
•	Programmed new functionalities as well as updating older functionalities of the application with Swift
•	QA test for every update made to developer version of application
•	Debug (front end and back end bugs) to prepare for public release of application in late August
•	Design UI for various screens of the application 
•	Experience with JIRA, Node.js, Parse and Cloud Code

### Student Researcher @ University of Washington Department of Human-Centered Design Engineering
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | University of Washington, Seattle
Visualization of Large Text Data Sets

Research with HCDE Professor Cecilia Aragon to develop and perform user research for a collaborative qualitative coding program, Aeonium. 
•	Created various user interfaces (low and high fidelity prototypes) for Aeonium with the User Research team
•	Programmed data visualization (sunburst diagram format) for visualizing ambiguity arising from the qualitative codes using d3

### Directed Research Group Member @ University of Washington Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Seattle, Washington
Consuming Information: Identifying usage patterns associated with free online information resources

Worked with a group of undergraduate and graduate students with Professor Mark Zachry and Jonathan Morgan from the Wikimedia Association to understand what qualities university students look for in free online resources for academic purposes. Main tasks included:
•	Formulate a survey to have current students fill out and answer questions regarding their personal use of free online resources
•	Analyze over 100 responses of data collected from students
•	Create an official presentation poster to present the findings at the HCDE Open House


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Informatics
University of Washington


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/erikayasuda

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Last updated: 2026-04-05