The School of Computing (SoC) alumni network at DePaul’s College of Computing and Digital Media is more than 20,000 strong. We are proud to be the alma mater to experts in the information technology industry. We’ve highlighted just a few of our alumni who are using their SoC education to solve technology problems at work and beyond.
Featured Alumni
Michael Papa
BS '03, MS '15
Senior Director of Technology Infrastructure and Operations, Chicago Cubs
Jamila Parham
BS '08
Owner, The Tech Unicorn and Senior Account Manager, Microsoft Federal
Notable Alumni
- John Akred, Director of Marketplace Engineering Apple (MS Computer Science ‘02)
- Karen Alkoby, Associate Professor at Gallaudet University and the first deaf woman to earn a PhD in CS (PhD Computer and Information Science ‘08, MS Information Systems ‘99)
- Vince Anter, Founder and Producer, Amazon Prime’s V is for Vino webseries (BS Human Computer Interaction ‘10)
- Gabriela Ariza, Lead Cyber Security Engineer, FHN.
- Saundra Castaneda (BS Computer Science '17), Lead Software Engineer, Stitch Fix
- Carlos Castro Herrera, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google (PhD Computer and Information Systems ‘11, MS Software Engineering ‘07)
- Noel Diaz, Senior Network Manager, Bosch (MS Cybersecurity ‘07)
- Ron Eisenstein, Senior Product Manager, EverTrue (MS Information Systems ‘03)
- Keith Forsythe, Chief Technology and Information Officer, North (MS Computer Science ‘03)
- Talal Ghafoor (BS CS ’23), Software Development Engineer, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Sanjay Gidwani, Founder and CEO, KOSMOS (BS Information Systems ‘03)
- Michael Gredlics, Lead Data Scientist, Harley-Davidson Financial Services (MS Data Science ‘13)
- Benji Greenberg, Founder and CEO, BCV, a RateGain company (BS Information Systems ‘09)
- Christopher Hein, Field CTO, Google (MS Computer Science '04)
- Krassi Hristova, Product Manager, TikTok (MS Information Technology ‘12)
- David Kalt, Chief Executive Officer, PangoBooks (former CEO and Founder, Reverb) (MS ’95, Computer Science and Software Engineering)
- Elizabeth Kovick, Senior Manager, Global Security Fusion Center, Allstate (BS/MS ‘10, Cybersecurity and Networking)
- Marcus Lofton, DevOps Engineer, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (BS Computer Science ‘20)
- Mark Nauta, Game Director, Firaxis Games (MS Game Development ‘13)
- Ekene Olekanma, Director of Coaching Analytics, New England Patriots (MS Data Science '21)
- Sadaf Pasha, Director, Healthcare Economics, UnitedHealth Group (MS Data Science ‘14)
- Ben Patel, Chief Technology Officer, UC Health (MS Information Systems '04)
- Connie Phan, Senior Director of Software Engineering, CME Group (MS Software Engineering ‘12, BS Computer Science ‘04)
- Andrew Ruginis (MS Computer Science '06), Director of Technology, Portland Art Museum
- Sierra Sellman, Operations Excellence Manager, Amazon Web Services (MS Data Science ‘19)
- Sohaj Shergill, Director of Analytics, LinkedIn (MS Data Science ‘19)
- Steven Slotwinski, Vice President of Product Strategy and Compliance, Wondr Nation (BS Computer Science ‘04)
- Beth Steele, Director of Advanced Analytics, Spark Foundry (MS Data Science ‘15)
- Aaren Stubberfield, Senior Manager of Data Science and Digital Excellence, Ingredion Incorporated (MS Data Science ‘15)
- Philip Tibitoski, Founder/President, Young Horses Inc. (BS Game Development ‘12)
- Sherry Wang, Senior AI/ML Applied Scientist, Infinia ML - an Aspirion company (MS Data Science ‘15)
- Ryan Wiemeyer, Owner/Co-Founder/Designer, The Men Who Wear Many Hats; Founder, Indie City Collective (BS Game Development ‘09)