Sahil Raina

Experience

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  FIRST

  Jan 2018 - Mar 2020

  Robotics

  Worked on multiple robots for FRC 3407 by participating and leading mechanical and programming teams to compete in competitions at the Regional level. - Built the elevator mechanism for one of the robots to raise its hands up and down such that it can score more points by going across different levels. - Created the hands of the robot such that the robot can hold the balls in the game for scoring points. - Programmed and worked on the drivebase code for the robot.

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  Mustang Mentor

  Jun 2018 - Jun 2020

  Mentor

  - Acted in the video campaign of Captivate Media Consulting for high school students: Voices of Tomorrow, garnering about 180K views online.- Mentored freshmen throughout the freshman year, helping them with their problems.- Facilitated the Respect Retreat program by communicating and conducting activities with the freshman students.- Conducted meetings with my mentees to talk about their high school time and problems.

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  National Honor Society

  Sept 2018 - Jul 2020

  Managed the tutoring sessions in the ILC of the school, and improved the Reflect and Classroom Tutoring System by creating an efficient and productive teacher-student tutoring system, with the help of the technological department, to aid the teachers in Reflect in assisting their students by giving them the access to our website to make requests to our NHS members, who could help the teachers if they were capable and experienced in the subject. Volunteered for 50 hours by tutoring students and coordinating activities and games for the senior citizens’ at Chandler Place and also by serving food to them. Moreover, I volunteered at Special Olympics as a timer and even at a temple.

  • ILC Coordinator and Executive Board Member

    Oct 2019 - Jul 2020

  • Tutor and Volunteer

    Sept 2018 - Oct 2019
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  WriteCase

  Oct 2018 - Nov 2019

  Co-Founder & Product Research Manager

  Co-founded a startup that worked on creating a writable laptop case that helps students and professionals in cutting the clutter in their workplace by aiding them in taking notes, both digitally and manually, through our product that was a combination of the functions of a notebook and a laptop case.Our team pitched and qualified in many entrepreneurial and startup competitions:- Semifinals of the MN Cup- Won the Third Place in the Minnesota Council on Economic Education (MCEE)- Placed Top 50 in the Blue Ocean Competition- Reached the Diamond Challenge Pitching Round Qualifiers - Qualified for the Junior Leadership National Leadership Summit Finals - Won numerous innovation and tech awards Show less

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  Google

  Jul 2020 - Aug 2020

  Google CSSI-Coursera Virtual Program

  Got selected for this program, where I explored and learned the concepts of Greedy Algorithms, Divide-and-Conquer Algorithmic techniques, and Dynamic Programming to design efficient programs that save time and memory.I learned these concepts through the Google sponsored Algorithmic Toolbox Course of the Data Structures and Algorithms Specialization Program.

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  United Student Education

  Sept 2020 - May 2021

  Project Manager

  - Lead and founded the "Gopher-Path" project that aimed at building a 2-D game for CS students at the UMN that helps them by recommending CS tracks based on the three factors: user interest, study, and work.- Mentored and taught a team of 3 people about the basic usage and functionalities related to the Godot game engine.

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  UMN Robotics Team

  Sept 2020 - May 2021

  Robotics Developer

  - Learnt about the ROS (Robot Operating System) by creating publisher and subscriber nodes for the robot using Python.- Implemented and tested packages to establish connection between two robots for the Autonomous Snowplow competition.

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  SASE - Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers

  Sept 2020 - May 2022

  - Lead a year-long project with 12+ members and built a smart bin, using Tensorflow and Raspberry Pi, with 80% accuracy—by creating and implementing Convolutional Neural Networks—to predict whether an item is biodegradable or not.- Developed and introduced a new program to the club, SASE Clients, where we facilitated projects involving clients.- Designed and held a series of 3 workshops related to Python, Numpy, and Pandas - Built a web-app called Gopher-A-Bite, using React and Flask, that uses my idea of providing recommendations for restaurants to the students of the University of Minnesota, based on the user preference. - Integrated FireBase with the app's login page- Added the "Review Button" to the Map and designed the review page where users can submit and write the reviews related to the restaurants.- Implemented the recommendation system of the webapp using cosine similarity.

  • SASE Labs Co-Director

    Jun 2021 - May 2022

  • Web Application Developer

    Sept 2020 - May 2021
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  Design U

  Sept 2020 - Apr 2021

  Project Lead

  - Managed a team of three other students in designing the wireframe for our client- Developed the UI/UX for the client from scratch using Figma- Held weekly meetings with the client and the team as to have our client and the team on the same page regarding our progress with the project.- Conducted user-testing as to get feedback related to the project and made the changes accordingly.

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  GDSC UMN-TC

  Jun 2021 - May 2022

  Google DSC Lead (President)

  - Founded and registered the chapter officially at the campus and built and led a team of 10 officers.- Conducted and managed 40+ events related to Web/App Dev. and AI technologies and concepts like Android, Flutter, React, GCP, Tensorflow, and scikit-learn, etc.- Orchestrated and nurtured an environment of growth and learning for 130+ new members and had an average monthly attendance of 20+ students.

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  North Star Imaging

  May 2022 - Sept 2022

  Software Engineer Intern

  - Developed a web-app, admin console—using MERN Stack & AWS—from scratch that includes 20+ features and use cases, including multi-factor authentication and role-based authorization, and was launched as a new service for the company.- Modified 2 existing softwares such that they work in tandem with the new admin console being developed using AWS Lambdas.- Deployed and maintained the webapp on AWS LightSail.- Resolved 6 high priority tickets related to existing softwares and programs using different languages such as C#, HTML/CSS, and PHP. Show less

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  University of Minnesota Medical School

  Dec 2022 - May 2023

  Student Website Coordinator

  - Fixed technical issues and resolved web related tasks- Created and managed new websites, pages, and faculty directories on Drupal- Improved the UI/UX of the pages using HTML/CSS- Collaborated with other departments to maintain the web content of the different pages- Mentored and helped new colleagues with the necessary skills and training required for the job

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  Medtronic

  Jan 2023 - May 2023

  Software Engineer Extern

  - Built a plan for containerizing different programs and implemented it using Docker- Created the setup for MongoDB Atlas and developed a Python script to add 3000+ documents to the database for testing based on certain criteria- Worked with Azure to setup a POST API and created a Node JS backend to process the information being sent as part of the request using Azure's function app

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  PwC

  Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

  Cybersecurity Engineering Intern (Identity & Access Management)

  - Worked on a Proof of Concept(POC) to transform a custom Secure Token Service(STS), a token translation service written in Java using the Spring Framework which employs JWT and OAuth concepts, into a module compatible with the ForgeRock Identity Cloud. This was undertaken to assess the feasibility of transitioning the client's software solution to a SaaS model. The original service was deployed using Apache Tomcat- Resolved 4 major issues regarding the POC along with general compiling and customization issues and tested the overall flow of the POC using Postman- Documented important aspects of the STS Code and created relevant UML diagrams regarding it- Developed JMeter Scripts for automating 114 SSO(Single Sign-On) test cases as part of reducing the testing cycles by 25% during the upgrade project and created the relevant testing documentation regarding it Show less

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  PwC

  Aug 2024 - now

  Cybersecurity Engineering Associate (Identity & Access Management)