Shraddha Agrawal

Software Engineer, Artist, Entreprenuer, Product Manager

About Me

Hi There! I'm Shraddha and I consider myself a polymath in process who loves learning and combining wide-ranging skills.
Here's a little about me:

Background:
- Senior studying Computer Science at UC, Davis
- Full time Software Engineer
- Part time Entreprenuer

Hobbies:
- Crafting
- Basketball
- Hanging out with friends

What I love to do

Learn

I live to learn. I believe that there is a learning experience in every failure. I strive to learn from my personal losses & seek out for advice to gain a broader understanding of the world.

Design

I love to design and sketch new products - I want to develop products that perform complex functions with simple commands. I believe clean user interface is the key to a sustainable product.

Prototype

I am a huge fan of creating different prototypes of new ideas. I believe that there lies a certain beauty of producing new iterations of products that exceeds the former ones.

Volunteer

I volunteer at my high school during summer to help grow its Speech and Debate Program - I absolutely love working with kids who want to voice their opinions about the world!

Experience

I've worked at few rapidly growing startups. I've also led multiple teams on different software projects at University. These experiences give a well-rounded perspective on how to implement and execute software projects.

  • Education

  • University of California, Davis

    - Bachelor's in Computer Science
    - Involved in Women in Computer Science & startup clubs


  • Women in Computer Science | Co-founder

    United the community of women in CS to support, empower and prepare them for tech industry. Spearheaded mentorship program with 15 mentees and 50 mentors and evening coding challege workshops.


  • Professional Experience

  • Illumio | Software Engineer

    Implemented a tool to request and monitor AWS spot instances to reduce cost and simulate real time testing environment.


  • Abeja | Techno-preneur Intern

    - Worked with Front end engineering team to develop Cost List feature of Abeja CRM system using Vue2.js framework.
    - Created mock e-commerce website for Abeja; a single page application using Vuex-state management & Firebase API.
    - Further, in a group of 5 analyzed business model of Abeja and proposed a new business in Agro-tech, after researching about potential niches in Asian market where Abeja technology could be integrated.


15

Hackathons

10

Personal Projects

150+

Team Meetings

too many

Cups of Coffee

Projects

These are my projects that I've developed or contributed to. I love attending Hackathons and many of them are from it.


Supreme Bot

Built StarCraft 2 agent of Terran race that utilizes Reinforcement learning to tackle the problem of build order optimization. Trained the agent in PySC2 AI environment, and experimented with different RL algorithms such as Q-Table and DQN.

Full Analysis Here


Abeja Merchandise Store

During my internship at Abeja, I implemented an e-commerce website for Abeja. A single page application using Vuex-state management and Firebase API.

Full Deck Here


Writing

These are some of my writings from UWP 104T reflecting my technical writing abilities.

Instruction Manual
Published October, 2018

Instruction manual for building Camel and remediation project

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Usability Testing Report
Published June 8, 2016

The purpose of the usability report is to analyze the data you collected during your usability testing. The report should introduce the hypothesis/goals you tested, explain the method of the testing, then explain major results, and lastly discuss any changes you needed to make to your product/instruction manual according to the testing you completed.

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User Persona
Published November 28, 2016

Analyzing primary and secondary audience for my online portfolio.

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Contact

Connect with me!
If you would like to talk with me about Computer Science, Entrepreneurship or Art, feel free to email at shagrawal.97@gmail.com or connect at LinkedIn.