Akash Pillai
Associate Software Engineer at Sprout Social, Inc.- Claim this Profile
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Malayalam Elementary proficiency
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Experience
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Sprout Social, Inc.
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Associate Software Engineer
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Aug 2022 - Present
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University of Illinois Chicago
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Web Developer
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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
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Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
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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.
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Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
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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.
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GPIP Intern - Information Technology
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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.
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State of Illinois - Illinois Student Assistance Commission
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United States
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Higher Education
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100 - 200 Employee
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Software Engineer Intern
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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.
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Skydeck Chicago
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United States
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Travel Arrangements
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1 - 100 Employee
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Cashier
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May 2021 - Jun 2021
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Mariano's
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United States
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Food and Beverage Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Cashier/Front End
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Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
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Education
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University of Illinois Chicago
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (Minor, Music) -
Maine West High School
High School Diploma