Krystal Karman Email & Phone Number

When I was little, the internet was still an unknown and burgeoning realm of possibilities. MySpace was the most popular form of social media, and Neopets was one of the biggest games out there. As soon as I was old enough to play on my parents' laptops, I was enthralled, amazed, and overall plainly terrified of the internet. It was a big-wide world inside such a tiny machine, and it was beautiful but so intimidating. Of course, as a computer technician and the owner of a cloud-hosting business, my father swiftly taught me as much as he had time to, and as much as an eight-year-old who only wanted to play Cool Math Games could stand to learn.In retrospect, if I told my younger self that I would be a software engineer and that I would be a part of the people who made the internet a more interesting place to be, I definitely wouldn't have believed it (I mean, it's just so cool!). And I certainly wouldn't have believed that I became a part of various projects, such as a machine learning lab that uses software to develop machine learning solutions, or that I coauthored a research paper on software development and Agile, or that I'm now working for a company that makes software for event-based companies, but I have! And I like to think that the younger me would be proud of that.My goal is to continually develop my skillset in new and sometimes serendipitous ways to make a true and good impact in the world. I hope to continue my education in graduate school to continue to bring these new skills back to my future employer.

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  California Baptist University

  Software Engineering