
Stefanie Schirmer
Stefanie Schirmer is a Software Engineer at Etsy and an alumna of Hacker School in New York. She studied Applied Computer Science in the Natural Sciences, where she developed a type checker for a compiler of a language for optimization problems. In her following PhD project she developed metrics for the comparison of RNA molecules. Working as a postdoc at the cancer research institute of Université de Montréal, she found her way to Hacker School and to Etsy in Brooklyn and Berlin. Together with Hannes Mehnert and Jens Ohlig, she wrote a book about functional programming and curry cooking.
Full Stack Fest 2015