Genkina Leaves Stuyvesant to Work for Online Startup

“It was wonderful. I had the best colleagues I could have hoped for and amazing students.” —Yulia Genkina, former Stuyvesant computer science teacher

“When you work in a company, my [intuition] tells me that I will have more power, more of an ability to initiate change.” —Yulia Genkina, former Stuyvesant computer science teacher

Former computer science teacher Yulia Genkina left Stuyvesant on Friday, September 29, for a position on the data team of an online startup called Triptease. Genkina taught computer science at Stuyvesant for three years after completing a semester of student teaching.

Genkina has been searching for a new job since the end of the 2016-17 school year. “I felt that in the education system of the city, it’s hard to make a structural change,” Genkina said. “When you work in a company, my [intuition] tells me that I will have more power, more of an ability to initiate change.”

Triptease is a website that serves as a hotel booking platform. The website puts the customer in direct contact with the hotel, allowing him or her to book rooms without an outside agent.

Genkina will be working on the data science team, analyzing the data that goes into the website and organizing it.

Genkina will miss teaching at Stuyvesant, but hopes to use this experience in the next stage of her career. “It was wonderful. I had the best colleagues I could have hoped for and amazing students,” Genkina said.

Charles Kaung (‘09) will be teaching Genkina’s classes for the rest of the year. Kuang has been a student teacher in Genkina’s classes for the past month. Genkina believes that the transition will be smooth, as Kaung understands the Stuyvesant community well and has already known the students for the past month.

Genkina is also planning on pursuing a PhD in Computer Science and hopes to return to teaching eventually.