Ella Thames

Ella Thames is an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer currently employed at AppFolio, Inc. since August 2022, previously serving as a Quality Assurance Engineer Intern at the same company from May 2020 to August 2021. Ella's early career includes roles as a Computer Science Tutor at FEMTech Berkeley from January 2018 to January 2021 and as a Research Intern at LogMeIn in summer 2018, contributing to machine learning projects focused on natural language processing and text categorization. Additionally, work as an Auditing Contractor at LogMeIn involved creating a "ground truth" dataset to enhance computer model tuning for sales call analysis. Earlier research experience at the Doyle Lab, University of California Santa Barbara, involved developing a MATLAB pipeline for gene expression data analysis during the study of stem cell differentiation. Ella holds a degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where studies were completed from 2017 to 2021.