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Emily Koster

MBA Candidate & Software Engineer

About

Hey there! I am a full-time, full-stack software engineer while pursuing my MBA part-time at Northwestern Kellogg.

Work Experience

Advanced Software Engineer

Relativity

April 2023 - Present

  • Headed the design and implemented feature that triggered delayed data refreshes based on front end user activity, improving the administrator’s user experience

  • Worked with product manager to preserve a customer-facing feature release timeline 
    while maintaining resilient coding standards

  • Created SQL table within a relational database to store historical client data and 
    implemented Restful API to query the table and serve up data to client-facing site

  • Established an incident tagging system for 2 engineering teams that organized customer issues to decrease incident frequency and improve product reliability

Software Engineer

Relativity

June 2021 - April 2023

  • Led cross-functional product slowness investigation that increased product’s service call coverage by 50% and presented findings to department leaders

  • Wrote, tested, and reviewed C# code in n-tier architecture including services layer,
    data access layer, and business logic layer to ensure robust and maintainable code

Software Engineer

Relativity

June 2021 - April 2023

  • Implemented service bus handler solution that sped up page load time by 2% 

Skills

Agile
Methodologies

3+ years of experience in a team that utilizes 3 week sprints and Kanban board task tracking

Cross-functional Collaboration

Regularly communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Product
Lifecycle

Designed and built a greenfield app, navigated GA launch, continued to maintain and enhance the application

Education

2024-2026

MBA
Northwestern Kellogg

Focus in leadership and marketing with courses including Strategic Brand Management, Leadership in Organizations, and Leading and Managing Teams.

2017-2021

BS, Computer Science
Loyola University Chicago

Majored in Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration. Graduated Summa Cum Laude with a a. 3.9 GPA.

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