Akanksha Gupta

Akanksha Gupta

New York City Metropolitan Area
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Seasoned Software Engineering Manager with experience around managing full stack teams…

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Experience

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Graphic

    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    New Jersey, United States

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    New York City Metropolitan Area

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    United States

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    New Jersey

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    New Jersey

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    New Jersey

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    Greater New York City Area

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    Hyderabad Area, India

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    Delhi

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    Hyderabad Area, India

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    Delhi

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    Delhi

Education

Licenses & Certifications

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Volunteer Experience

  • Gotara - Women in STEM+ Graphic

    Gotara Senior STEM+ Advisor

    Gotara - Women in STEM+

    - Present 3 years 11 months

    Science and Technology

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    Mentor

    First Round Fast Track

    - Present 4 years 3 months

    Science and Technology

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    Mentor

    Plato

    - Present 3 years 11 months

    Science and Technology

    https://www.platohq.com/mentors/akanksha-gupta-1364542759

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    Mentor and Coach

    GrowthMentor

    - Present 4 years 2 months

    Science and Technology

    https://app.growthmentor.com/search?field=_score&order=desc&text=akanksha%20gupta

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    Judge

    The Webby Awards

    Science and Technology

    As part of the IADAS(The International Academy of digital arts and science) jury, helping recognize and acknowledge excellence in interactive digital content across emerging technologies in Sciences.
    https://www.iadas.net/membership/bio/akanksha-gupta/10171

  • The Stevie® Awards Graphic
  • Globee Awards Graphic

    Judge

    Globee Awards

    Science and Technology

  • SIIA  Graphic

    Judge

    SIIA

    Science and Technology

    SIIA Codie awards for Business Technology.

  • WomenTech Network Graphic

    Global Mentor, Ambassador and Track Chair

    WomenTech Network

    - Present 4 years 4 months

    Science and Technology

  • AnitaB.org Graphic

    Committee Member

    AnitaB.org

    Science and Technology

    Committee member for the Software Engineering Track. I was responsible for reviewing of papers submitted and providing feedback.

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    TechStart Role Model

    Facebook

    - 1 year 3 months

    Education

    -Trying to bridge gap between high school students and computer science
    -Sharing my knowledge and experiences and bringing them to the classrooms

  • Columbia University in the City of New York Graphic

    Proctor

    Columbia University in the City of New York

    - 2 years

    Education

    -Proctor for students who are specially-abled
    -Helping them feel comfortable at exam center and perform well to be a better ally

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    Mentor for students from VIT University, India

    Microsoft

    - 4 months

    Science and Technology

    • Helped a group of students in all stages of the software development life-cycle from VIT University as part of the Campus Connect program by Microsoft
    • I provided technical guidance to help them deliver a working solution
    • The final solution "Music Discovery" was one of its kind and was one of the top three projects chosen by Campus connect Program, Microsoft

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    Mentor for summer interns in Microsoft Services, Hyderabad, India

    Microsoft

    - 2 months

    Science and Technology

    -Mentored and lead group of 5 interns who were summer interns in Microsoft Services, Hyderabad.
    -Helped them understand the industry culture and provided technical ramp-up, understanding solution delivery standards and coping with the challenges of professional life

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    Core Member, Microsoft Giving Team, India

    Microsoft

    - Present 11 years 7 months

    Children

    -Facilitated the Microsoft Giving Mela in Hyderabad, being a part of the Microsoft Giving core committee member.
    -Helped raise funds for sanitation and education for the underprivileged children in the society.

  • Tutor-Volunteer

    Holy Family Ashaniwas Social Service Center

    - 1 year 8 months

    Social Services

    -Voluntarily teaching at Holy Family Ashaniwas Social Service Center,an orphanage that houses girls of all age groups

  • Tutor+Management -Volunteer

    NEST

    - 3 months

    Children

    -Worked with N.E.S.T as a volunteer to teach the underprivileged children
    -Awarded certificate of appreciation by Bhumi, for a social cause as part of Hi5 club

Publications

  • An Integrated Framework for DevSecOps Adoption

    International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology Volume 70 Issue 6, 19-23, June 2022. ISSN: 2231-2803

  • Microsoft Azure Automation Repository-MSFC

    Authored the Azure Automation Repository. Over 100+ tasks were automated involving various Azure capabilities and services. It was a single store for all scripts, end to end solutions, workflows and runbooks enabling Microsoft customers to automate their environment, processes and operations both on-premise and on Azure.

    Other authors
    • Ritesh Modi

Courses

  • Advanced Software Engineering

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  • Analysis of Algorithms

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  • Artificial Intelligence

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  • Cloud Computing and Big Data

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  • Database Systems

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  • Microservices and Cloud Apps

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  • Operating Systems

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  • Principles of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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  • Secure Software Development

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Projects

  • SAGE-Parsons Implementation

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    -Automated learning environment for Parson’s Programming puzzles and assessment of SAGE (Scratch) submissions for teachers along with real time guidance to students as they work on their SAGE assignments

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  • Trade Wizard

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    -Developing a full-stack, service oriented, algorithmic trading system that allows users to automate trading operations for ETFs for our customer, JP Morgan.

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  • Chottu: Helping the poor and lost

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    -Windows 10 App to connect underprivileged with nearby NGOs and family.Used technologies like C#, Azure, SQL etc.
    -Our App was the first runner up in the competition: "Code For Her" , organized by Microsoft.

    Other creators
    • Ankur Bajoria
    • Aman Bedi
  • Health O Meter

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    -This project aimed to capture health data from Microsoft Band and Fitbit.
    -The data was combined with a person’s social account like Twitter, Yammer and Facebook to generate a complete Health report o a person’s daily target health record and diet regime.
    -Also, the report was provided as a Windows 8 phone app for the ease of the person to use it. Stream analytics and Azure Machine Learning were used to analyze the data and generate reports

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  • Social Data Mining

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    -This project aimed to mine useful data from social networking sites like Facebook on the basis of several useful atomic parameters, both quantitative and qualitative.
    -It included parameters such as posts, comments, share, likes etc. and generated useful analytical reports for market study.
    -The information and reports could be used to know the details about how specific products are performing in the market

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  • TFS and Yammer Integration

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    -Worked on TFS and Yammer integration for bidirectional flow between the two platforms.
    -Developed Windows and WCF services to incorporate sentimental analysis and Business Intelligence

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  • Online Job Search Engine

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    -The search engine provided a platform for the job seeker and recruiter to interact
    -It helped reduce the manual work and automated the recruitment process, additionally providing an easy to use platform for interaction between job seeker and job recruiter

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  • AFL Fast Optimized

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    Introduced six new power schedules for fast fuzzing of seeds in AFL Fast for bug findings. One of the power schedule proved faster than current benchmark of AFL Fast.

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  • EmoSense

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    -Developed a web app for geo-location based sensing of emotions across the globe.
    -The app also predicts the events/news that causes the change in emotions of people across globe was integrated with GDELT.

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Honors & Awards

  • Top EBC Speaker Q4, Microsoft

    Microsoft

    Awarded Top EBC (Executive Briefing Committee) Speaker for Quarter 4 by Microsoft. I presented the session on Azure Automation and capabilities of Azure for Enterprise Modernization. The feedback from the customer was excellent rating me 9 out of 10.

  • Code For Her: First Runner up

    Microsoft

    Awarded first runner up for project Chottu. The app connected underprivileged children with nearby NGOs and family members. IT could be used to report a lost child and helping locate him/her. It connected the people who can help to the needy.

  • SPOT Award

    Microsoft

    For delivering work excellence at Microsoft

  • Computer Science Guest Speaker

    Microsoft

    Chosen as Computer Science Guest speaker from Microsoft, India.
    Delivered guest lectures in USA, UK, UAE, as part of the Skype in Classrooms initiative (https://education.skype.com/computerscience)

Test Scores

  • Bachelors Of Technology, Computer Science

    Score: 90%

    Rank I, University Topper, University Gold Medalist

  • CBSE Class 12

    Score: 94.4%

    Rank I, School Topper

  • CBSE Class 10

    Score: 95.4%

    Rank I, School Topper

Languages

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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