Shiva Velingker

FacebookSolutions Engineer
Hybrid business / coding job, where I work with clients and use my software engineering skills to unlock revenue
Current
GoogleSoftware Engineer Intern
Spearheaded 2 mission-critical features needed by Spotify and 30 other clients to adopt Google Cloud. Presented to ~300 engineers/product managers at the Google Cloud Summit
University of OxfordResearch Intern
Bioinformatics research, evaluating the human genome to determine patterns correlated with cancer with regards to introns and exons
Won award

2020 TX Ballot TrackerGrassroots voter turnout app
Released an app 36 hours before the polls closed that enabled people to encourage their friends to vote. App went viral w/ ~3,000 users who made over 249K searches of their peers
Uplift JournalMental health app
Journal app that aimed to understand someone's psychology to provide more holistic mental healthcare
Won award
Ongoing
UT Dorm Speedy Mail LoggerImproving a painfully tedious process
Streamlined envelope validation by 76% and package logging by 52%. App adopted by 58 dorm employees, logging ~6,900 packages during its lifetime
Won award
Satya SteganographyEncrypting files within images
Placed Finalist in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2015.
Won award
G
Graduation TrackerSpecifically multiple majors/minors
I dual majored and dual minored, and no existing tool was good at making sure I could graduate on time with all 4, so I built my own app
C
Carpe Diem SchedulingHyper-effective time management
Very ambitious app, and the only app prototype that I never finished due to time constraints, ironically.
City Navigatorfor Robotics competition
Point-and-click interface for auto-programming the route a robot dog should follow on a real-life map
Won award

Texas 4000 for CancerFundraising Coordinator
Biked over 4,000 miles from Texas to Alaska to fight cancer!
Nonprofit
Travis County GovernmentPoll Worker
Served as a poll worker during the US national and local elections in 2020-2021
Out YouthProject Manager
Manage marketing campaigns to help this 31yo nonprofit build its first recurring donor base
Nonprofit
Ongoing
MEASURET-Shirt Fundraise Coordinator
Coordinated 44 Facebook employees to support a BLM nonprofit fundraiser in the wake of George Floyd's death. Drove over 8.2K people to t-shirt
Nonprofit
Dell Medical SchoolProject Manager
Provided technical expertise for development switching costs of newly-adopted learning management system
ADVANCE Program for Young ScholarsCamp Counselor
“You were a great RA and an even better role model” -one of my kids. This quote really meant a lot to me :)
2 years