Yana Pertels is a detail-oriented Software QA Tester with 10 years of experience, currently ensuring product quality at Hushmail from her base in Vancouver. With a solid academic foundation in Mathematics and Computer Science from UBC, she blends hands-on testing with prior software development work in AR/VR, neuroscience data analysis, and research-grade automation. Her background includes co-founding a tech cooperative, extending an AR medical learning app for Hololens, and writing reproducible data pipelines in Matlab and Python—skills that give her a rare mix of technical empathy for developers and rigor for experimental workflows. She’s motivated to join mission-driven teams that value community impact and brings proven experience running workshops, managing labs, and translating complex research needs into reliable software processes.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English, Russian
Github Skills (16)
data-structures10
pandas10
python10
data-structure10
data-science10
data-analysis10
social-media6
visualize6
discourse6
aggregate4
rpg2
openstreetmap1
git1
brave1
gis1
Programming languages (7)
C#VueJavaScriptHTMLJupyter NotebookRich Text FormatPython
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