Vinitha Sunkara
Co Director at Tech for Equity- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Tech for Equity
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co Director
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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
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Pearson
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United Kingdom
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Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Solutions Manager Intern
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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
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Intern
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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
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Duke University, Bass Connections
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United States
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Student Researcher
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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
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CSbyUs
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United States
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Research Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer Intern
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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
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Education
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Duke University
Bachelor's degree