She has worked with big data at the CERN Large Hadron Collider’s ALICE experiment for 14 years, unlocking the secrets of the early Universe by colliding heavy nuclei at the highest energies available in the lab. She has managed several large scientific software projects in nuclear and particle physics experiments and is the Executive Council Chairperson for the Neutron Induced Fission Fragment Tracking Experiment (NIFFTE) Collaboration. Over the past several years she developed an introductory computational science course using the IPython notebook to teach data analysis and numerical methods for students in the physical sciences. She loves to code and advocates computer software education for all as an essential 21st century technical skill.