Tess Rinearson

I'm Tess Rinearson, a software engineer at Chain.

I attended the University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon University before dropping out to join Medium.

I keep busy by organizing unconferences, judging hackathons, and teaching high school girls about cryptography.

Here are some other places you can find me:

• Writing
• Tweets
• Code (but most of my code is private these days)

If you're trying to figure out who I am, you might be interested in

• An explanation I wrote about the infrastructure behind Medium's social graph
• A post I wrote about interning at Valve
• An article about my 15 minutes of hacker fame during SOPA blackout day
• My posts on Impostor Syndrome and "Technical Entitlement"
• Some resources I compiled on running inclusive hackathons