Vinitha Sunkara

Co Director at Tech for Equity
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, US

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Experience

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Co Director
      • Sep 2021 - Present

      - Formerly Events Coordinator - Organized summer fellowship program to connect a cohort of students with internships in applying tech for good - Worked with 5 companies/organizations to understand their needs to develop impact projects for students in data science and SWE - Planned and managed student projects, including educational enrichment, to meet client goals - Delegated tasks to leadership board to manage ~$20k in funds and communicate with donors and faculty - Formerly Events Coordinator - Organized summer fellowship program to connect a cohort of students with internships in applying tech for good - Worked with 5 companies/organizations to understand their needs to develop impact projects for students in data science and SWE - Planned and managed student projects, including educational enrichment, to meet client goals - Delegated tasks to leadership board to manage ~$20k in funds and communicate with donors and faculty

    • United Kingdom
    • Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Solutions Manager Intern
      • Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

      - Spearheaded the development of an AI generated assessment tool integrated into Pearson’s content creation with a tech stack utilizing OpenAI’s GPT-3, Falcon 40b, Hugging Face, and Universal Sentence Encoder - Analyzed market, use cases, and business requirements to plan product features and scope while communicating with stakeholders - Designed UI of site with Figma and developed front end features for filtering and text display using HTML/CSS - Spearheaded the development of an AI generated assessment tool integrated into Pearson’s content creation with a tech stack utilizing OpenAI’s GPT-3, Falcon 40b, Hugging Face, and Universal Sentence Encoder - Analyzed market, use cases, and business requirements to plan product features and scope while communicating with stakeholders - Designed UI of site with Figma and developed front end features for filtering and text display using HTML/CSS

    • Intern
      • May 2022 - Nov 2022

      - Developed design of the Partnership Platform, a web app tracking and organizing records of 365 volunteer, social justice, and grant work initiatives between Duke and the Durham community - Collaborated with engineering team to ideate new features and set development goals for launches - Conducted market research to understand similar tools at different universities and analyze features to improve on - Consolidated user feedback from team members and 10+ Duke faculty to iterate the design of the site Show less

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Student Researcher
      • Aug 2021 - May 2022

      - Design and implement K-12 CS curricula and resources after interviewing and understanding the needs of our users, NC K-12 teachers - Designed multiple functional website prototypes with Figma using data from teachers to intuitively organize lessons - Analyzed results of product testing on stakeholders to gauge impact in classrooms and modify design further - Design and implement K-12 CS curricula and resources after interviewing and understanding the needs of our users, NC K-12 teachers - Designed multiple functional website prototypes with Figma using data from teachers to intuitively organize lessons - Analyzed results of product testing on stakeholders to gauge impact in classrooms and modify design further

    • United States
    • Research Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Engineer Intern
      • May 2021 - Jul 2021

      - Analyzed research on the accessibility of K-12 CS education for Duke University's CSByUs team - Applied such research to develop features of a new website, Teach Tech NC, consolidating CS resources for K-12 teachers - Analyzed research on the accessibility of K-12 CS education for Duke University's CSByUs team - Applied such research to develop features of a new website, Teach Tech NC, consolidating CS resources for K-12 teachers

Education

  • Duke University
    Bachelor's degree
    2020 - 2024

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