Vyki Englert

Compiler is a civically oriented strategy and software consultancy dedicated to using tech and data to design solutions that make life better in Los Angeles. As champions of open source practices and a human centered design philosophy, our team builds products, hosts events, and fosters relationships that strengthen and contribute to the local community.

CityGrows is a workflow and transparency platform for digital government. The CityGrows platform makes it easy for governments to move paper approval and permitting processes online and begin generating open data, tracking metrics and efficiency, and improving public-private communication. Building off her experience in technology with both governments, and startups, Vyki helped launch the CityGrows workflow platform in 2015. In January of 2016 the team won the Hack the Beach competition for innovation in government and has been growing ever since. Currently Vyki serves as an advisor to CityGrows.

BrightHive develops and supports an ecosystem of open source tools to help workforce development agencies calculate outcomes of training programs. Through data literacy trainings, facilitated data governance workshops, and software BrightHive enables workforce agencies to do more with integrated data. As product manager Vyki leads user research for all products and develops priorities for the engineering team. Her role includes interfacing with open source partner engineering teams and working directly with customers to better understand their challenges in working with data. She also oversees execution of all housing and homelessness data integration projects.

Hack for LA is the Los Angeles brigade chapter of Code for America. http://hackforla.org

Data and Services Team was responsible for building and maintaining a National Voter File, Day to day included acquisition of voter files from counties and states, data cleaning and processing for consumption by political customers. Designing and supporting integrations with political and census geographical boundaries.

Researching Open Data and SaaS for the Information Systems Department. https://github.com/CityofSantaMonica

Hands on summer program teaching women to programming in Ruby/Ruby on Rails. Student member of Team Dysania. Summer project includes extracting preview feature from Discourse forum software into a standalone ruby gem, Onebox. https://github.com/dysania

Hired to plan and implement new databases system for invasive plant program after graduating from the UCR Extension GIS program. Worked August through October as a volunteer until funding was found for the program. Update existing field units with new software, research and purchase new units to fit program needs. Produce maps as needed for projects and/or field crews. Streamline desktop interface and teach basic software skills to staff. Light IT and networking.

Worked for the Soil Ecology and Restoration Group (SERG) Weekly survey hikes in rough terrain collecting seed, herbarium specimens and surveying for rare and endangered species. Knowledge of flora for general surveys. GPS navigation and data collection using Garmin units. Field Data collection (releves and transects) and data entry. Point person for updating ArcGIS data and creating data sets for map publishing and spatial analysis. Wrote access database for seed collections and germination trials.

Knowledge of flora. Annual vegetation monitoring using releves, transects, and photo monitoring. Rare plant surveys. Collect herbarium specimens as needed. Work in native plant nursery cleaning seed, transplanting and maintenance of nursery stock. Wrote seed seekers manual for nursery volunteer program.