Alana first joined the den as an intern during high school, after her interest in cybersecurity was piqued by Mr. Robot and (legal!) hacking with friends. As her next step, she headed to Oregon State University, where she was a vice president on the Engineering Student Council, the student chair on the Women in Tech committee, and the first author of an academic research study using NVIDIA and Supermicro liquid-cooled workstations for ocean modeling. Alana also interned at Los Alamos National Laboratory, gaining more experience in high-performance computing and low-level Linux system behavior. She hopes to someday get a masters in network engineering.
After college, Alana felt a pull back to Colorado, where she could be close to family, enjoy the outdoors, and pursue a career in tech. She returned to the den because of the people (once a fox, always a fox!) and the work, but also because of her respect for entrepreneurship and interest in learning more behind the scenes of the business.
When not in the den, Alana loves getting competitive with family and friends while skiing, hiking, and golfing. She’s a fan of gaming in all forms (board, card, and video), cooking, and reading. She also volunteers with A Precious Child, a local nonprofit devoted to empowering children in need.
