Maya Chandra Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Leading the team of 15 students that organizes Stanford’s annual TEDx conference. Overseeing speaker curation and mentorship, public relations, partnerships with external organizations, and logistics. Served as director of public relations the prior year, managing event branding, marketing strategy, and promotion.

Selected by the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab to mentor a cohort of high school girls, with the goals of growing their skills to succeed in STEM fields and building a supportive community. Promoted to senior leader to assist with the program after serving as a leader the prior year.

Focused on enhancing security for Microsoft Fabric User Data Functions (UDFs) by adding in virtual network integration.Tested a range of networking scenarios in the Azure Portal to determine the best implementation approach. Developed and aligned on a design proposal with three stakeholder teams across Microsoft Fabric. Implemented virtual network.

Focused on developing a logging system for the token manager software used by Compute Cloud at Customer. Implemented structured logging in Go and captured the results in the token manager’s Kubernetes container. Created a Lumberjack namespace in the Oracle DevOps portal using Terraform and pushed logs to the DevOps portal with Chainsaw.

Led the team of 30 students that organized Stanford's premier annual hackathon with 1600 participants, 300 projects, and 50 corporate sponsors. Focused on operations, coordinating food, transportation, swag, housing, and more. Oversaw cross-functional work across three main subteams and managed initiatives in a wide range of areas.

Focused on optimizing the delivery of telemetry data streamed from Cisco routers to the IoT Operations Dashboard over cellular networks in order to mitigate cost to customers. Tested a variety of third-party compression algorithms and developed a proof-of-concept streaming codec with C / C++, connecting a compressor and decompressor program with a TCP.

Organized 6 all-girls hackathons, developed a club curriculum to teach at weekly meetings, and fostered a school community of girls interested in computer science. Joined board in May 2018; selected as co-president in April 2019.

Worked for over a year during high school in the IT department of a company developing autonomous electric air taxis. Served as a system administrator, assisted with company-wide IT projects during Wisk's formation as a joint venture with Boeing, and provisioned Mac, Linux, and Windows systems.

Bachelor'S, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: TEDxStanford (Co-President), Seeds of Change (Senior Leader), TreeHacks (Co-Director)Relevant Coursework.

Valedictorian, Class Of 2021

Activities and Societies: Girls Who Code (Co-President and organized 6 hackathons), California Scholarship Federation (Teaching.