Staff
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Instructors
Lara McConnaughey ✍️ she/her
I graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Computer Science, B.A. in Linguistics, and M.S. in Computer Science. I’m a software engineer at Google, working on Federated Learning of Language Models. This semester, I’m taking a sabbatical from my work at Google to come teach this class full-time!
Hampton Teaching Assistants
Jonathan Aner ✍️
Hello everyone. I am Jonathan Aner and I am a Senior Computer Science major from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I have interned with Google 2 times and last year I interned with Dell! I am excited to be helping out with CSC 151 this semester
Kristian-Anthony Beckley ✍️
Office Hours:
Monday & Wednesday: 4pm-6pm
Friday: 4pm-5pm
Hey class! My name is Kristian Beckley and I’m a second year Computer Science major from Memphis, Tennessee AND Louisville, Kentucky! I’ve worked extremely hard this summer helping to teach CSC 150! I’m glad to return to my position during the school year!
Google Teaching Assistants
Chang Huang 👀 she/her
Hi folks 👋 I’m Chang and I currently work on the Google Workspace for Education team. Prior to that, I studied at Rutgers University for my Bachelors, and worked at LinkedIn for 4 years, working mostly on LinkedIn Learning. In my spare time, I like to enjoy the bay area outdoors with my two pups (who may occasionally disturb my video calls)
Katherine Bruton she/her
I’m a software engineer on the Google Keep team in NYC. Previously, I worked at Meta in Seattle and graduated from UT Austin with a Computer Science degree in 2018. In my free time, I enjoy board games and teaching my dog fun tricks.
Malik Majette 🌚 he/him
Hello everyone, I’m Malik! I am originally from Durham, North Carolina and it is also where I stayed for college at NC State University. After college I moved to the SF Bay Area to join Google and now I am a SWE on the Google Workspace Growth team where I work on developing new value propositions for acquiring Workspace users. I’m currently listening to: Charlie XCX, Beyonce’s Renaissance Album, and Rosalía.
Career Coach
Colin Floyd 😀 he/him
I’m originally from Kansas and graduated from the University of Kansas in 2021. I’m now a Software Engineer at Google in the Mountain View headquarters working on Android Messages and RCS. I love hiking, running, and reading (I’m currently six books into the Wheel of Time series). Fun fact: I skipped my first day of classes at KU to go watch the solar eclipse in 2017.
Curriculum Collaborator
Yimin Ding 🤯 he/him
My name is Yimin and Gavin is my Starbucks name. I went to State University of New York, Binghamton for my master degree. After graduation, I came to LA to join Google. I have been SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) for 5 years.
Google University Program Specialist
