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👉 Three hours flew by yesterday! I ran into an old colleague and friend at the gym about 4 years ago... someone I hadn't seen in years. Life had…
👉 Three hours flew by yesterday! I ran into an old colleague and friend at the gym about 4 years ago... someone I hadn't seen in years. Life had…
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Excited to share that I’ve joined Deloitte and begun a new chapter in my journey.
Excited to share that I’ve joined Deloitte and begun a new chapter in my journey.
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The best advice I've heard in 12 years of my career about building teams came from a room with Jim Roskind. I do not say that lightly. For context…
The best advice I've heard in 12 years of my career about building teams came from a room with Jim Roskind. I do not say that lightly. For context…
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Experience
Education
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Gotara Senior STEM+ Advisor
Gotara - Women in STEM+
- Present 3 years 11 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.
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Global Mentor, Ambassador and Track Chair
WomenTech Network
- Present 4 years 4 months
Science and Technology
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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
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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 -
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.
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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.
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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
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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
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An Integrated Framework for DevSecOps Adoption
International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology Volume 70 Issue 6, 19-23, June 2022. ISSN: 2231-2803
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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.
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Courses
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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
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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 -
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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 reportsOther creators -
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 marketOther creators -
EmoSense
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See project-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.
Honors & Awards
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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.
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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.
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SPOT Award
Microsoft
For delivering work excellence at Microsoft
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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
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Bachelors Of Technology, Computer Science
Score: 90%
Rank I, University Topper, University Gold Medalist
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CBSE Class 12
Score: 94.4%
Rank I, School Topper
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CBSE Class 10
Score: 95.4%
Rank I, School Topper
Languages
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English
Full professional proficiency
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Hindi
Native or bilingual proficiency
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