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EIR with CS@ILLINOIS alum Steve Downing, Palantir Dev Lead

Speaker Steve Downing
Date Mar 27, 2012
Time 6:00 pm  
Location 2405 Siebel Center
Sponsor CS@ILLINOIS
Contact Kymberly Burkhead-Dalton
E-Mail kbdalton@illinois.edu
Phone (217) 244-4250
Registration Registration
Event type Alumni Meeting
Views 2542
Originating Calendar Computer Science Alumni Calendar

Join CS@ILLINOIS for an Engineer in Residence interview with CS alum Steve Downing on Tuesday, March 27th in 2405 from 6:00-7:00pm.

Steve Downing grew up in the Chicago suburbs before attending UIUC studying Computer Science in the fall of 2001. Before long, he joined ACM and started participating in programming competitions like MechMania and the International Collegiate Programming Contest. Steve was on the teams representing UIUC in the ACM-ICPC world final in 2004 and 2005. Since his 2005 graduation, he’s moved to Silicon Valley and worked at Google and Palantir Technologies. Steve is currently a dev lead at Palantir Technologies and has lots of information to share regarding what tech industry companies need and how to make the transition from university to industry.

Register at http://go.cs.illinois.edu/SteveDowningEIR

Pizza and pop will be provided. 

Meet with Steve one on one to discuss job opportunities at Palantir. To register for office hours go to http://go.cs.illinois.edu/SteveDowningEIROfficeHours