I'm Tiffany Williams — a senior software engineer with a PhD in cancer biology from Stanford University.
I build tools that solve business problems — the kind of work where you need to actually care about the people using the thing. The problems I'm drawn to tend to sit at the intersection of human health and technology, education, equity, and how people learn.
Before software, I was in the lab — studying how molecular pathways go wrong in cancer and how to intervene. Day to day, that meant pushing small amounts of liquid between tiny containers and orchestrating cells in culture. Now I push bits around instead. The career shift sounds dramatic, but the throughline is the same: I like understanding how complex systems work, and I like building things that make them work better for people.
Outside of work, I'm usually tinkering with something — AI tools, side projects, improv, acting classes, or whatever I haven't tried yet. You can see what I'm currently focused on over at my Now page.