Nitish Poddar
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Jen Quinlan
I had the pleasure to manage Nitish at the Cargill Innovation Lab at UIUC during the fall 2020 semester. Nitish joined the team as a full stack software engineer intern, and I'm very pleased that he's returning for the spring 2021 semester. Nitish is very hard-working, driven, curious, collaborative, responsible and organized. He worked with a project partner on a prototype involving smart contracts and blockchain. Nitish self-taught technical skills where applicable, sought advice from more senior engineers when needed, worked quickly on tight R&D timelines and employed agile methodology to keep his project on track. Based upon his unique mix of soft and hard skills in addition to his performance at our Lab, I fully recommend Nitish for consideration by other startups, tech companies and software teams for internship and eventually full time roles.
Jen Quinlan
I had the pleasure to manage Nitish at the Cargill Innovation Lab at UIUC during the fall 2020 semester. Nitish joined the team as a full stack software engineer intern, and I'm very pleased that he's returning for the spring 2021 semester. Nitish is very hard-working, driven, curious, collaborative, responsible and organized. He worked with a project partner on a prototype involving smart contracts and blockchain. Nitish self-taught technical skills where applicable, sought advice from more senior engineers when needed, worked quickly on tight R&D timelines and employed agile methodology to keep his project on track. Based upon his unique mix of soft and hard skills in addition to his performance at our Lab, I fully recommend Nitish for consideration by other startups, tech companies and software teams for internship and eventually full time roles.
Jen Quinlan
I had the pleasure to manage Nitish at the Cargill Innovation Lab at UIUC during the fall 2020 semester. Nitish joined the team as a full stack software engineer intern, and I'm very pleased that he's returning for the spring 2021 semester. Nitish is very hard-working, driven, curious, collaborative, responsible and organized. He worked with a project partner on a prototype involving smart contracts and blockchain. Nitish self-taught technical skills where applicable, sought advice from more senior engineers when needed, worked quickly on tight R&D timelines and employed agile methodology to keep his project on track. Based upon his unique mix of soft and hard skills in addition to his performance at our Lab, I fully recommend Nitish for consideration by other startups, tech companies and software teams for internship and eventually full time roles.
Jen Quinlan
I had the pleasure to manage Nitish at the Cargill Innovation Lab at UIUC during the fall 2020 semester. Nitish joined the team as a full stack software engineer intern, and I'm very pleased that he's returning for the spring 2021 semester. Nitish is very hard-working, driven, curious, collaborative, responsible and organized. He worked with a project partner on a prototype involving smart contracts and blockchain. Nitish self-taught technical skills where applicable, sought advice from more senior engineers when needed, worked quickly on tight R&D timelines and employed agile methodology to keep his project on track. Based upon his unique mix of soft and hard skills in addition to his performance at our Lab, I fully recommend Nitish for consideration by other startups, tech companies and software teams for internship and eventually full time roles.
Experience
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Verkada
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer
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Feb 2022 - Present
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CME Group
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer Intern
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May 2021 - Dec 2021
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Assistant - Koyejo Lab
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Jun 2020 - Dec 2021
Implementing an agent for automated theorem proving by designing and training neural networks in Python with PyTorch.
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Research Assistant - TIMAN Group
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May 2021 - Oct 2021
Developing an algorithm to automatically extract key concepts and related concepts from lecture transcripts for online lectures using time series analysis and clustering methods
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Research Assistant - Forward Data Lab
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Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
Collaborating on ListenOnline, an app which allows users to collect and analyze data from social media, using React.js, MongoDB, Express.js and Node.js to develop tools to work with GraphQL schemas.
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Illinois Business Consulting
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United States
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Business Consulting and Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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Project Manager
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Jan 2021 - May 2021
Led a team of 8 consultants to develop an efficient business model and strategy for a client's service in a 12-week time frame.
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Consultant
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Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
Devised specific strategies for market entry and performed competitor analysis as a consultant for an IT consulting company.
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Cargill
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United States
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Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer Intern
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Jan 2021 - May 2021
Identified trends and developed hypotheses targeted towards improving internal business processes by analyzing a large data set with more than 400,000 datapoints and 100 features using Tableau.Collaborated on a configurable dashboard to display real-time data through visualizations using React and Finsemble.
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Software Engineer Intern
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Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
Applied blockchains and related technologies to implement a UI administration tool using React and Rust.
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Panasonic North America
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United States
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Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Development Intern
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Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Developed a chatbot with Python and Rasa using NLU pipelines while also designing and deploying a real-time data processing pipeline and dashboard utilizing Pandas and Docker. Developed a chatbot with Python and Rasa using NLU pipelines while also designing and deploying a real-time data processing pipeline and dashboard utilizing Pandas and Docker.
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Assistant - Sarita Adve Research Group
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Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
Identified and mapped memory locations to heap-allocated variables through analysis x86 assembly code and C programs.
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Course Developer - CS 125
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Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Worked to develop a lecture-slide tool to be used by 1000+ students each semester using React.js and Gatsby.
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Varenium Growth Hackers
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India
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Development Intern
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Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Built an interactive bot for a local university to be used by 5000+ prospective applicants by developing the complete user interface, API and database for the bot using React.js, Node.js, Express.js and MongoDB. Built an interactive bot for a local university to be used by 5000+ prospective applicants by developing the complete user interface, API and database for the bot using React.js, Node.js, Express.js and MongoDB.
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Education
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2018 - 2022
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science -
2005 - 2018
The Heritage School
High School Diploma, ISC
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