Melissa Fabros

Melissa Fabros is a Software Engineer at Kiva. She comes to programming from the world of nonprofits and higher education. Melissa’s interest in programming started in middle school where she was a founding member of the computer club. However, she majored in English and American Literature in college. Even in academia, Melissa still maintained her coding interests by making small web page projects. Melissa transitioned from lecturing at the University of California (Merced) to working at Kiva by taking part-time coding classes, completing Google Summer of Code, a full-stack bootcamp, Rails Girls Summer of Code and Fast.ai.

Skills

• HTML
• jQuery
• Community Outreach

Education

• Certificate UC Berkeley (2015 — 2015)
• University of San Francisco (2016 — 2017)
• Certificate Hackbright Academy (2014 — 2014)
• Hackbright Academy (2014)
• PhD Candidate University of California, Berkeley
• English University of California, Riverside
• UC Berkeley (2017 — 2017)

Companies

• Software Engineer Kiva (2017)
• Deep Learning Engineering Apprentice Prognostication Engines (2016)
• Lab Instructor Hackbright Academy (2015)
• 2016 Rails Girls Summer of Code Developer Github (2016 — 2016)
• Software Engineering Fellow Hackbright Academy (2016 — 2016)
• Site Director - Berkeley Unified in Literacy Development UC Berkeley (2014 — 2016)
• Google Summer of Code Internship Google Summer of Code (2015 — 2015)
• Adjunct Professor UC Merced (2010 — 2013)
• Lecture reader. UC Berkeley (2009 — 2010)