About

Liz Howard is an accomplished Engineering Leader, Professor of CS, and Research and Development expert with over 20 years of experience in the field. With 10+ years of teaching experience, 15 years of front-line and program management experience, and 20 years of experience in writing code, Liz is a highly technical expert educator and manager. She has taught over 11,000 people in person and has developed repeatable processes that have graduated thousands more. Her in-person students are hired at a rate over 98% at an average starting salary of $106k. Liz has built products like Enki.com, which over a million engineers use, and the fraud infrastructure protecting most debit cards in the US. She has designed, architected, and contributed code to 3 learning management systems for the top coding bootcamps in the country and written large portions of their curriculum. Currently, she is running a research and development department at Karat.IO. Liz is a modern tech millennial who is well-versed in matters educational and technological. She is highly knowledgeable in mathematics and business models, and she aligns incentives with the cap table. She is an expert in information security and keeps hackers from accessing data with clear processes and good code reviews. Liz is also skilled in working with relational databases and monitoring CVE for POCs intending access malicious. At Karat, Liz leads the Research and Development function as a Program Manager and as a contributing IC Data Scientist and prototyper of new models and methods for scoring and evaluating Software Engineers. She collaborates with interdepartmental stakeholders to produce software requirements that meet everyone's needs, evaluates the technical feasibility of those solutions, and creates multi-year research roadmaps with ELT. Liz works with industry-leading I/O Psychologists to create scientifically valid competency models and leads cross-functional teams to create standardized rubrics from KSAs. She also evaluates new technologies and their potential impact on many key areas of their business. Liz has previously worked as a Technical Integration Specialist/Lead Developer for the Fraud line of business at ArgoData, where she was responsible for developing enterprise fraud solutions, internal fraud prevention algorithms, social engineering prevention, and customer behavior modeling. Her team's products are successfully implemented in eight of the top ten banks in the US, as well as many others. Liz has a strong educational background, having attended Treetops School International. She is skilled in various technologies, including research scientist, NLP, Python, data