# Sheri Zada

> Staff Software Engineer at Okta

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sherizada

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Okta
Jan 2020 – Present
Worked on AI agents, Identity Governance, and Identity Engine products

### Software Engineer @ Flight Penguin
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Created a browser extension to search flights

### Senior Developer @ Hipmunk (Acquired by SAP Concur)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020
Travel search for leisure and business customers

### SENS Summer Research Scholar @ University of Oxford
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Oxford, England, United Kingdom

### Undergraduate Researcher in The Hinck Lab @ UC Santa Cruz
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Santa Cruz, CA
Awarded Undergraduate Research in the Sciences Award with a grant to continue an independent research project in cellular senescence of cancerous mammary cell-lines. 
Research assistance in mammary stem cell senescence resulted in co-authorship of following publication: 
Hinck et al. (2014) Stem Cell Reports 3(3): 385-393. (Co-author, see below)

### Cal Teach Summer Research Scholar @ UC Berkeley
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Berkeley, CA
Worked in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology under Damon Lisch. Investigated epigenetic mutations in the maize color gene caused by the Mutator family of transposable elements.
Presented research findings at UC Berkeley Summer Research Symposium 2011


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience, Bioinformatics
University of California, Santa Cruz


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12