Veronika Pláničková

Veronika Polushina is a skilled data engineer currently leading the Puget Sound Modeling Framework at Puget Sound Institute since August 2023, enhancing insights into the Puget Sound ecosystem for policymakers and researchers. Previously, Veronika worked as a software developer at Brammer Technology LLC, where improvements to investor capital allocation for wind farms were achieved through data visualizations and ETL pipelines. At Earth Networks, Veronika implemented a machine learning model in Python that achieved over 90% accuracy in classifying lightning types, while also facilitating a critical code migration. Early in the career, Veronika served as a contractor at Fidelity Oligos, providing web portal security support and user experience consulting. Veronika holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, earned in May 2022.