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### <a name="about"></a>About Me
I'm <NAME>, and I'm an undergraduate Computer Science student at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

I fell in love with computer science long ago. I've been working with computers for most of my life and have developed a genuine fascination with how they and their software work.

I originally got into programming when my family first bought an iMac and suggested I learn how to create iPhone applications. I followed a few basic tutorials from online and was immediately hooked. I eventually bought a MacBook Pro and started developing apps as a hobby, hoping one day to be good enough at programming to turn my skills into a career.

### <a name="work-experience"></a>Work Experience
In the summer of 2013, I worked at CloudSherpas, Inc., a cloud-computing and mobile application consulting company based in Atlanta, as an intern in the software engineering department. I helped create an iOS application that interacted with the Salesforce backend service for one of the company's clients.

During the summer of 2014, I interned at AppsNMotion, Inc., a mobile application startup based in Atlanta, testing production code of the company’s restaurant discovery and rewards application, as well as writing logic to enhance the user experience and create new features.

Since July 2014, I have worked at Pardot, a Salesforce company based in Atlanta, as an intern in the software engineering department. I help maintain a large-scale sales and marketing web application to deliver marketing emails to businesses and people. During the summer of 2016, I work with a scrum team of six other engineers to produce new features that tighten Pardot’s Salesforce CRM integration and played a key role in directing Intern Hack Week, a week-long hackathon for the six Salesforce interns posted in Atlanta, and oversaw the creation of a basic machine-learning project that leveraged analytics data from Pardot to find trends in customer activity behind closed deals.

### <a name="extracurriculars"></a>Extracurricular Activities

![Georgia Tech SGA]({{ site.baseurl }}/assets/images/sga.jpg)
<h4 style="margin-bottom:10px;">Georgia Tech Student Government Association</h4>

###### IT Development Committee Member/Chair

###### Sept 2015 – Present

###### Atlanta, GA

Communicating with campus officials and outside IT contacts in order to improve existing infrastructure and working with third parties to establish new working relationships to build a better future for Georgia Tech students.

![Georgia Tech]({{ site.baseurl }}/assets/images/gt-fisheye.jpg)
<h4 style="margin-bottom:10px;">Georgia Tech College of Computing</h4>

###### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (CS 2340: Objects and Design)

###### Aug – Dec 2016

###### Atlanta, GA

Helped fellow students learn about object-oriented programming and project-based teamwork and taught them about JavaFX development and Agile Scrum methodologies for their first foray into team-based software development.

![TEDxGeorgiaTech]({{ site.baseurl }}/assets/images/tedx.jpg)
<h4 style="margin-bottom:10px;">TEDxGeorgiaTech</h4>

###### Webmaster

###### Sept 2016 - Present

###### Atlanta, GA

Leading the development of the website for a student-led version of the TED conference series at Georgia Tech. Working with other executive committee members to drive UI design and build new features that make the website a central location for information about TEDx events at Georgia Tech.

<h4 style="margin-bottom:10px;">Startup Exchange</h4>

###### Community Co-Coordinator

###### Sept 2016 - Present

###### Atlanta, GA

Part of a team focused on developing Atlanta’s startup culture from the ground up through student involvement at Georgia Tech. Producing media resources to connect students and community members with startup and entrepreneurial resources.

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### <a name="about"></a>About Me
I'm <NAME>, and I'm an undergraduate Computer Science student at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

I fell in love with computer science long ago. I've been working with computers for most of my life and have developed a genuine fascination with how they and their software work.

I originally got into programming when my family first bought an iMac and suggested I learn how to create iPhone applications. I followed a few basic tutorials from online and was immediately hooked. I eventually bought a MacBook Pro and started developing apps as a hobby, hoping one day to be good enough at programming to turn my skills into a career.

### <a name="work-experience"></a>Work Experience
In the summer of 2013, I worked at CloudSherpas, Inc., a cloud-computing and mobile application consulting company based in Atlanta, as an intern in the software engineering department. I helped create an iOS application that interacted with the Salesforce backend service for one of the company's clients.

During the summer of 2014, I interned at AppsNMotion, Inc., a mobile application startup based in Atlanta, testing production code of the company’s restaurant discovery and rewards application, as well as writing logic to enhance the user experience and create new features.

Since July 2014, I have worked at Pardot, a Salesforce company based in Atlanta, as an intern in the software engineering department. I help maintain a large-scale sales and marketing web application to deliver marketing emails to businesses and people. During the summer of 2016, I work with a scrum team of six other engineers to produce new features that tighten Pardot’s Salesforce CRM integration and played a key role in directing Intern Hack Week, a week-long hackathon for the six Salesforce interns posted in Atlanta, and oversaw the creation of a basic machine-learning project that leveraged analytics data from Pardot to find trends in customer activity behind closed deals.

### <a name="extracurriculars"></a>Extracurricular Activities

![Georgia Tech SGA]({{ site.baseurl }}/assets/images/sga.jpg)
<h4 style="margin-bottom:10px;">Georgia Tech Student Government Association</h4>

###### IT Development Committee Member/Chair

###### Sept 2015 – Present

###### Atlanta, GA

Communicating with campus officials and outside IT contacts in order to improve existing infrastructure and working with third parties to establish new working relationships to build a better future for Georgia Tech students.

![Georgia Tech]({{ site.baseurl }}/assets/images/gt-fisheye.jpg)
<h4 style="margin-bottom:10px;">Georgia Tech College of Computing</h4>

###### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (CS 2340: Objects and Design)

###### Aug – Dec 2016

###### Atlanta, GA

Helped fellow students learn about object-oriented programming and project-based teamwork and taught them about JavaFX development and Agile Scrum methodologies for their first foray into team-based software development.

![TEDxGeorgiaTech]({{ site.baseurl }}/assets/images/tedx.jpg)
<h4 style="margin-bottom:10px;">TEDxGeorgiaTech</h4>

###### Webmaster

###### Sept 2016 - Present

###### Atlanta, GA

Leading the development of the website for a student-led version of the TED conference series at Georgia Tech. Working with other executive committee members to drive UI design and build new features that make the website a central location for information about TEDx events at Georgia Tech.

<h4 style="margin-bottom:10px;">Startup Exchange</h4>

###### Community Co-Coordinator

###### Sept 2016 - Present

###### Atlanta, GA

Part of a team focused on developing Atlanta’s startup culture from the ground up through student involvement at Georgia Tech. Producing media resources to connect students and community members with startup and entrepreneurial resources.

### <a name="projects"></a>Projects

All of my projects are available on [GitHub](https://github.com/akeaswaran). I mainly work with the Objective-C, Java, and JavaScript programming languages, but have a working knowledge of PHP, Apex, and Visualforce. I have also worked extensively with MySQL, MongoDB, the Salesforce CRM, and the Pardot web application. Some of my notable projects are:

#### [TEDxGeorgiaTech Ticketing](https://github.com/akeaswaran/tedxgt-ticketing)
An event-management platform built with NodeJS to help TEDxGeorgiaTech manage and market its events in-house.

#### [Football Coach](https://github.com/akeaswaran/FootballCoach-iOS)
A college football simulation game for iOS.

#### [CFB Scoreboard API](https://github.com/akeaswaran/cfb-scoreboard-api)
A NodeJS REST API built to reformat ESPN's "hidden" college football JavaScript API data into something more developer-friendly and integrate matchup history from [College Football API](https://collegefootballapi.com/).

#### [ReachWeather](https://github.com/akeaswaran/ReachWeather)
A software modification, or "tweak", for jailbroken iOS devices that puts local weather information in the empty screen space above the current app when Reachability is invoked.


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