Tejas Bhat Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Stories Originality Team- Developing features to increase original story content on IG Stories.- Expanding post and reels reshare capabilities to stories platform.- Working on foundational pieces to improve story load.
• Worked with mobile full-stack technologies on the Instagram Creator Shopping Team.
• This team is centered around creating tools and workflows for Affiliate Creators to make a living on Instagram by gaining commission when followers purchase products through their tagged content on Instagram.
• I designed and owned features end-to-end for Affiliate Creators such as a discovery platform for affiliates to find products and contributions to various other workstreams such as incentives, product tagging, and more.

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Worked with mobile full-stack technologies on the Instagram Well-being Elections team.
• Engineered and launched an authoritative Voting Information Center that received upwards of 30 million impressions and drove approximately 1 million people to register to vote in the 2020 US election.
• Crafted key growth levers such as custom IG stories experiences in order to increase total voter registration clicks by 45%.
• Collaborated cross-functionally in order to meet tight, high-visibility deadlines well before the US election cycle.

Los Angeles, California, US

• Serve as a Senior Consultant providing pro-bono consulting services to small businesses and startups within the Greater Los Angeles setting.
• Perform market research and technical evaluation in order to guide struggling businesses towards increased profits.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Organized events for the largest computer science club at UCLA, bringing together 600+ active members every month.
• Directed flagship events that increased membership by 15%: General Meetings, Hacker Expo, and Tech Talks.
• Kickstarted projects for the UCLA Engineering School, focusing mainly on website development with React.js & Node.js.

Campbell, CA, US

• Architected various components of the Life Science Analytics Cloud, which provides analytics for businesses and hospitals.
• Designed, implemented, and evaluated multiple machine learning models using TensorFlow in order to predict selection of certain patient sites for a clinical trial, eventually achieving 97% accuracy.
• Created a fully-functional admin web portal for medical trial match-making, using a custom React/Node stack.
• Streamlined queries in PostgreSQL to pipeline data for the frontend system, significantly decreasing overall load time.
• Developed APIs using Flask in order to create seamless data interaction between machine learning models and the front-end UI.

Palo Alto, California, US

• Worked a part-time job teaching coding principles using a self-developed curriculum in a variety of languages: JAVA, Python, & HTML/CSS, and JavaScript.
• Managed summer camps, often working with 20 students at a time, and taught private lessons primarily to handicapped students.
• Successfully coached and formed friendships with kids of all ages, ranging from elementary schoolers to college students.
• Promoted two times, going from a regular 'Code Coach' teaching only private lessons to a 'Lead Code Coach' guiding group lessons.

• Taught high schoolers how to compete in professional 2v2 debates by hosting weekly lessons and after-school practice debates.
• Attended circuit tournaments throughout California, with my captainship bringing four new students to state level competitions.
• Placed at Stanford and Santa Clara invitational tournaments, and got second place at Stanford for my speaking skills.

New York, NY, US

• Developed a social media campaign to endorse Monta Vista TEDx, a full-fledged TEDx conference at my high school.
• My social media campaign, which included increased advertising and student incentives, attracted around 100 members to the main conference in 2018. This marks a 100% increase from the previous year's 50 member.
• Planned the logistics of the conference by performing tasks such as contacting speakers and setting up the venue.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Education record

Computer Science

Computer Science

Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering