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Ricardo Nunez Cuesta
'24Ricardo Nunez graduated from Michigan Tech in 2024 with his BS in Computer Science. While a student, Nunez immediately took the skills and knowledge he learned and put them to use. In his last semester at Tech, he founded a startup—PaisaTax—and continued working on it full-time after graduation. Two years later, the startup received an acquisition offer and its first clients. Now, PaisaTax has four employees, including . . .
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Brenda Helminen
'83, '88After graduating in 1983 with a BS in Computer Science, Brenda Helminen began her career as a programmer with IBM Corporation in Rochester, MN. She returned to the Copper Country later that year to work for the Department of Computer Science at Michigan Tech. While working, she completed her Master's degree in Computer Science in 1988. She continued her career with the University as a Senior Systems Programmer in the . . .
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Adil Shafi
'86, '86Adil Shafi graduated from Michigan Tech in 1986 with a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. In 1993, he also received an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Tech. He is president of SHAFI Inc, the company he founded in 1991 in Houghton with $1,000. Prior to founding SHAFI in Michigan, Adil worked and lived in Manhattan, Silicon Valley and Chicago. Since the opening of the main office in Brighton . . .
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