
Neha Manoj
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Neha Manoj •
Software Engineer
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Driven Software Engineer developing tech solutions—building ideas into streamlined code, line by line.
Prev. SWE@Chevron Tech Ventures, working to President of Technology Ventures’ Office—exploring tech ventures space as well as developed app—centralizing CTV Global Innovation Pipeline @Chevron. Developer@Chevron —developed a Natural Learning Processing(NLP) tool to auto-tag growing global content & built dashboard for Digital Value Delivery Projections for CDO@Chevron. Secured Seed Money from Google + Goodler + the United Nations Population Fund as Founder@MorePrep.
Currently, Developer @re:Bloom, building tech solutions for small businesses + Univ. of Pittsburgh Teacher's Assistant, teaching 2-hour labs in foundation of CS + Python.
Currently
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A paid Fellowship by Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute focused on Robotics and Automation + Entrepreneurial Development.
Fellows for a year, focus on on supporting combination of academic and supplemental entrepreneurial programming in the Robotics Institute, the opportunity to immerse Fellows in the local Robotics startup ecosystem and gain valuable hands-on experience in various aspects of building and scaling a startup.
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Accelerated from PHASE 1, to Semi-Final Round Pitch, PHASE 3, &Final Round Pitch.
Accepted into the Big Ideas competition amongst 30 teams
BizBuzz was born April 2024 as an App developed during a She Innovates Hackathon @Pitt to bridge the gap between small businesses and their local customer base post COVID-19 towards local financial recovery.
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Spearheading Full-Stack Development, as Head Developer for Boston-based College Support Company; leveraging React, Python, JavaScript, RESTAPI, AWS Cloud, MongoDB to build Digital Classroom for Accessibility
re:Bloom is dedicated to connecting underserved small-businesses’ to developers, designers, and digital marketers, enabling digital transformation and growth.
Psycollegey Advantage is an innovative, research-based program focused on helping students to proactively build and strengthen the social and emotional connections in college.
Industry
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(June 2024- July 2024)
Technology Development & Adaptation Application Developer:
• Engineered & deployed CTV Innovation Pipeline App of 100+ growing Ventures, transformed manual efforts to automation, from week to minutes, increased team capacity & productivity by 75%; Empowered key decision-makers with investment decisions enterprise growth
• Working to President of Technology Ventures’ Office; Leveraged for all Leadership, PM’s, Finance, Decision Analysts, across 30+ CTV Team; used JSON/PowerApps/Power Automate, DataVerse, (UX) User Testing
Technology Innovation Scout:
• Efficiently spun up digital environments, executing rapid Proof-of-Concept tests, ensuring 100% security compliance & validating value proposition; delivered essential data to line of business teams with average turnaround time of 48 hrs, directly contributing to the evaluation of Chevron's value proposition by 3+ enterprise teams—Tech Ventures, XR, Cybersecurity, and Preventative Safety
CTV/ Chevron Business Development/ Chevron New Energies-Network Dashboard Developer:
• Built Relationship Dashboard to maintain 100+ internal and external relationship data in the Tech Innovation Ecosystem; implemented for enterprise-wide teams: Chevron Business Development, Chevron New Energy, & Chevron Technology Ventures use; leveraged REST API’s/Power BI resulting in a 25% boost in data-driven decision-making efficiency across these units
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(January- April 2024)
re:Bloom is dedicated to connecting underserved small-businesses’ to developers, designers, and digital marketers, enabling digital transformation and growth
• Spearheading Full-Stack Development, as Head Developer for Boston-based College Support Company; leveraging React, Python, JavaScript, RESTAPI, AWS Cloud, MongoDB to build Digital Classroom for Accessibility
Tech Stack: React, Python, JavaScript, RESTAPI, AWS Cloud, MongoDB -
NLP Tagging Tool:
• Developed a Natural Learning Processing tool to automate text tagging by text-scraping, attaching weights & analyzing text patterns in lengthy media sets; implementation for libraries of 200+ curated media
• Decreased manual tagging time from weeks to seconds; utilized tags to create sort architecture for content filtering system; used Python
KPI Digital Delivery Value Dashboard:
• Built an analyzing KPI dashboard for 15+ to project Chevron's Digital Value impact; dashboard efforts provided direction and goals for the Digital Value Delivery team; measured and analyzed 7+ marketing channels; used Power BI, providing scalability for Enterprise-Surface platform
User Research via Panel:
• Led a speaker event for 40+ employees, conducting UX research for Digital Value Delivery and the Chief Digital Officer, with a focus on the young technologist profile in parallel to the digital value space; built new enterprise consumer profiles.
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Full-Stack Development: Angular, JavaScript, HTML/CSS;
Worked on construction of Information Data Management System App; implemented features to automate previously-manual document management system processes’; reducing task completion times by 60%, improved usability and conducted Unit Testing
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MorePrep is an online marketplace serving underprivileged students with a variety of quality SAT/ ACT content, all while fighting a social cause to help all students from all backgrounds prep for success.
• Served as Team Lead; Took initiative to solve the issue of disadvantaged youth not being able to access standardized test prep
• Conducted market research amongst 50+ students based on economic conditions and diversities
• Designed and built the technology/product platform; used Python/Classmarker/Wix
• Curated ~1,500 questions of SAT/ACT prep, generating ~100 varieties of tests, for website
• Presented to investors, & marketed locally in Bay Area
• Secured partnership with local charity dedicated to providing resources for homeless youth in the Bay Area
Accomplishments: Won Seed money from Gooddler Social Innovation Change competition, hosted by Gooddler supported by Google and United Nations Population Fund; Presenter in TIECon 2019, 2nd place in TYE Business Competition in West Coast Region, garnered support from well-known serial entrepreneurs; California Finalists in Diamond Challenge; Top 10 Finalists in San Jose State Innovation Challenge, amongst bachelor and master students.
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Big Ideas
• Teaching 2-hour lectures for 40+ students on Programming Foundations/Practices; 10+ hrs of individual support; focused on Python/Pandas/Jupyter Notebook
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Beaming Face is a startup which creates a marketplace platform designed for student discounts/coupons at the local level as well as international.
• Filed a provisional patent, alongside team, for the systematic structure of having large group organizers create personalized kits for events/groups on one end while having vendors bargain with one another on the other end to sell the best price and quality products per users request. This system fairly allows the potential success of even small-sized businesses.
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VenueLytics provides an AI-driven digital concierge and guest engagement platform for hospitality and entertainment industries with patent-pending machine learning technology & service automation.
• Worked with core team to onboard ~4 large-chain hotel clients onto technology platform to enrich their User Experience
• Collaborated in developing Chatbot, focusing on human-computer interaction
• Built automation tools to assist in monitoring the AI platform’s performance ; utilized Python
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• Served as team leader from designing, building, to launching a social project game: Exam Eliminator
(www.exameliminator.com), a set of mini-games designed for students to engage in fun exam stress-busters.
Projects
BizzBuzz
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BizBuzz: Bridging the Buzz of Business to the Community post-COVID-19 to recover local economies.
Upon implementation, Finalists in Pitt's Big Ideas Business Competition.
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Python, SQL, Google Maps API, AWS, SendGrid's API.
Flight Advisor
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Co-developed web app for Practical Applications of AI that leverages AI to predict flight delays and help users better search for plane tickets
Utilized Google Cloud’s BigQuery to train ML models on departure time, location, airline, and weather conditions
Designed and implemented data pipeline to extract, transform, & load real-time flight data from Amadeus API into BigQuery
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Google Cloud, BigQuery ML, Amadeus Flight API, Flask, Django, Python
3D Glass Donut
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Experimented & built a Glass texture Material with distortion with the MeshTransmissionMaterial with Three.js, React, React Three Fiber and Next.js.
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MeshTransmissionMaterial , Three.js, React, React Three Fiber and Next.js.
Awards & Recognition
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Invited by Snapchat + Juv, highlighting young change-makers in Gen Z, as young technologist using Computer Science & Technology for social change through Amulya's Fabrics.
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Fellows will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the local Robotics startup ecosystem and gain valuable hands-on experience in various aspects of building and scaling a startup.
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Won 2nd place, receiving investment fund Seed money of 2K for MorePrep development.
Funded through United Nations Population Fund.
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Exclusive Event Invitation from Netflix HQ for promising Women in Tech
Netflix's 15th Anniversary- Women in Consumer Insights Panel.
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Only High School Team in San Jose State Collegiate Business Competition.
Placing 2nd place for MorePrep.
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Amulya's Fabrics interviewed & published in TriCity Newspaper in the South East Bay.
Fremont Unified School District spotlighted and announced Amulya's Fabrics support.
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Invited for Duolingo's Women in Technology Mentorship Program.
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2 months in Technical Boot camp mentored by Deloitte employees prepping for steady technical development in the Tech Space.
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The OpenAI Forum is a new initiative that brings together domain experts and students to discuss and collaborate on the present and future of AI. The Forum features events such as in-person meet-ups highlighting technical talks and dinner-mixers at OpenAI , educational webinars and expert roundtable conversations, and plenty of opportunities for members (including OpenAI researchers) to network and cross-pollinate ideas. Forum programming is co-created by community members, and facilitated by OpenAI.
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Went from Phase 1 round all the way to Finals Round, pitching app developed, BizBuzz.
Education
University of Pittsburgh
Deloitte Technical Interview Bootcamp-GWC
Cisco Networking Academy
Ford Greenfield Innovation Labs (w/ Girls Who Code)
School Involvement
CS Teacher’s Assistant
Research Assistant @ School of Engineering - Cybersecurity
First-Year Mentor
Girl Scouts Engineering Event Co-Chair
Semi-Finals for Big Ideas
Developed Finalist app at She Innovates (Hackathon)
Steel Hacks (Hackathon)
Tech Stack
Python
Java
C++
Angular/React
HTML/CSS
Javascript
Node.js
TensorFlow
PowerBI
PowerApps
SQL
Other
Social Media Marketing on Instagram (@amulyas_fabrics)
Proficient in Microsoft Office, Adobe, iMovie, Web-Development Tools
Hobbies: Champs and Showstopper (Judge’s choice)- TruDance Official 2018-2019 Dance Team, Univ. of Pitt- Controlled Chaos Dance Team- 2023 Awarded Openers at Pitt’s Carly Rae Jepson Concert, 2nd Place Winner in FUSD’s Got Talent, 2nd place in Fremont’s Got Talent, (awards)
Certified Level 6 Royal Conservatory of Music- Classical Guitar Mastery