Akash Pillai

Associate Software Engineer at Sprout Social, Inc.
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States, US
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Malayalam Elementary proficiency

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Experience

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Associate Software Engineer
      • Aug 2022 - Present

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Web Developer
      • Aug 2019 - May 2022

      – Designed and implemented the user interface for redesign of existing application from plain PHP to Laravel/Vue.js, placing an emphasis on simplicity and ease of use for staff users.– Designed the user interface and collaborated on back end logic for a new application to help facilitate UIC Biomedical Engineering's yearly Ph.D. student evaluations, organizing dashboards to emphasize tasks that needed to be done for each user role within the evaluation process. – Performed miscellaneous software maintenance and bug fixes on various projects as needed. Show less

    • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
      • Jan 2022 - Apr 2022

      CS 341: Programming Language Design and Implementation taught under Prof. Joe Hummel. Held office hours to resolve difficulties with homework/projects and proctored exams.

    • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
      • Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

      CS 474: Object-Oriented Languages and Environments taught under Prof. Ugo Buy. Graded quizzes and held office hours to help students understand course material and answer grading questions.

    • GPIP Intern - Information Technology
      • Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

      – Worked within the College of Engineering Administration as an IT helpdesk associate to assist faculty and staff with technical issues. – Wrote Python scripts to continuously wrangle and export incoming data using pandas. – Learned the fundamentals of CRUD by assisting the development on an internal form application using Laravel and Bootstrap.

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Software Engineer Intern
      • Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

      – Learned the fundamentals of Java EE and Spring Framework and delivered RESTful web services based on business requirements. – Evaluated several Vue.js data table components/libraries, selected one after weighing business needs and implemented a demo with company requirements to present to leadership for use in site-wide redesign. – Engineered proof of concept migrations of Spring MVC/Wildfly service endpoints to Spring Boot, researched deployment strategies using Docker. – Learned the fundamentals of Java EE and Spring Framework and delivered RESTful web services based on business requirements. – Evaluated several Vue.js data table components/libraries, selected one after weighing business needs and implemented a demo with company requirements to present to leadership for use in site-wide redesign. – Engineered proof of concept migrations of Spring MVC/Wildfly service endpoints to Spring Boot, researched deployment strategies using Docker.

    • United States
    • Travel Arrangements
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Cashier
      • May 2021 - Jun 2021

    • United States
    • Food and Beverage Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Cashier/Front End
      • Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

Education

  • University of Illinois Chicago
    Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (Minor, Music)
    2018 - 2022
  • Maine West High School
    High School Diploma
    2014 - 2018

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