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- Contributing to case study documents to analyze countries' progress in digital human rights, providing qualitative insights to complement a quantitative metrics dashboard for informed policy discussions.- Leading the design of a Power BI dashboard to track digital transformation initiatives across UNDP, enhancing transparency and supporting data-driven decision-making in project management.

Selected from an applicant pool of 4,500 with an acceptance rate of 2% as part of the Coding it Forward Fellowship, a program that empowers early-career technologists to explore technology careers in government.

- Established and implemented organization-wide best practices for Google Analytics, streamlining feature development for a 10-member Boston Digital Service team by creating comprehensive strategy documents and delivering targeted demos.- Led cross-functional stakeholder interviews to identify and define key performance metrics for the City’s digital products, improving analytics tracking across services with a reach of 2.7M monthly visitors.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

GSI for SI 501: Contextual Inquiry and Consulting FoundationsI lead 2 weekly discussion sections of ~25 students each - Presenting content on user research skills, and project scoping for civic tech projects- Grading and providing feedback to further project ideas, and holding office hours

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

ELP is a year-long program that provides deep training and mentorship for a select cohort of students to develop skills in areas of individual leadership, operations, innovation, and execution in entrepreneurship.- Built prototypes of a generative AI tool for digital marketing and content creation

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

- Leading the creation of a new smart light product to display air quality levels for the City of Dearborn which improved air quality information access for 500+ school children- Integrated user feedback into the product roadmap through focus groups and user interviews, leading to product design changes that immediately improved usability

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Analysing user behavior and network data to inform the design and implementation of new features in a story-telling driven social network for BIPOC social entrepreneurs- Creating a network analysis and simulation tool to understand interactions between users, network characteristics and growth

Making civic datasets accessible and useful at the Data Commons project- Worked on importing pregnancy related datasets into a shared knowledge graph - Modeled data to maintain logical consistency and future extensibility - Extracted, cleaned, and transformed data using python, pandas, xml

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Full stack development in the Legal, Compliance and Corporate Governance Technology division

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

- I was a part of the Technology Analyst Program class of 2020 and underwent intensive training in Java, databases, front-end technologies. - I worked with internal Investment Management clients to deliver a REST API based application for on-demand data extraction and enrichment.

Singapore

- Research assistant with the Distributed Energy Resources Management team in the Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERIAN)- I worked on reviewing previous literature and performed data analysis on electrical load data for Load forecasting

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

- Full stack web development in Java and Angular in PWM Asia team.- I developed an application to intuitively interact with and modify rules for trading on the fly.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

- Selected for the Narendra Summer Internship program offered by the Department of Computer Science and Automation, IISc - Interned in the Game Theory lab, under Prof. Y Narahari - I worked on "Learning defender strategies in a Stackelberg Security Game"

Pes University

I worked in the VR-Kinect team to develop a Virtual reality based physiotherapy and gait analysis system

Master Of Science - Ms, Information, Human Computer Interaction

Activities and Societies: Civic User Testing Group, Public Interest Technology Group, Entrepreneurs Leadership Program Fellow, Science.

Graduate Certificate, Science, Technology And Public Policy

Courses: - Introduction to Science and Technology Policy - Politics of Policy Making - Information and Communication Technologies.

Bachelor Of Technology (Btech), Computer Science And Engineering, 9.33/10.0

Activities and Societies: Head and co-founder of Write Angle, PESU's Literary Club; Member of Quotient Quiz ClubSpecialization: Algorithms.

Graduate Certificate In Public Policy, Technology And Policy

Selected Coursework: - Economic Reasoning for Public Policy - Politics and Policy of the Information Age - Social Impact Analysis.

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Activities and Societies: Quiz, MUN