Tanishq Sandhu

adkc9i@r.postjobfree.com www.tanishqsandhu.com 770-***-**** U.S. Citizen

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology Expected Graduation: May 2022 Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science

Threads: Intelligence & Information Internetworks

Clubs/Activities: Vice President at Big Data Big Impact, Data Science @ GT, Veggie Jackets, Sikh Students of Atlanta Skills

Programming Languages/Frameworks: Java, Python, C, Node.js, React, Angular, Django, JavaScript/HTML/CSS, Linux, SQL Software: Postman, IBM MQ, Atlassian Stash/Bitbucket, MySQL, Memcached, Bootstrap, Mongo DB, Docker, AWS, Google Analytics Concepts: Git, Genetic Programming/Algorithms, UI, Full-stack Development, Web Development Experience

Teaching Assistant, Database Systems Georgia Tech College of Computing Atlanta, GA Jan 2021 - Present

Tech stack: relational (SQL DBMS), DDL, EER SQL diagrams, relational schema, front end app

Hold weekly office hours for 400+ Students

Co-author exams and projects, and grade SQL queries, EER/ERD projects Vice President Big Data Big Impact at GT Atlanta, GA May 2020 - Present

Responsible for overall club management, marketing strategy, corporate relations and communications

Led club-wide re-branding/restructuring including developing the new club website (www.gtbigdata.club) and revamping social medias resulting in 300% increase in membership, 400% increase in Executive Board size, and 350% increase in Instagram followers

Collaborated on 10 design documents for Big Data Projects including defining the scope for Analysis (ML), Data Visualization, and Platform components

Software Engineer Intern The 808 Wave Atlanta, GA May 2020 – Dec 2020

Georgia Tech start-up creating a social media networking and collaboration platform for the music industry

Full-stack web development on a MERN Stack (Mongo DB, Express.js, React, Node.js)

Leveraged Google Maps API to develop in-app studio search/booking service

Designed a scalable chat service with web-sockets and a Discord-like backend

Company accolades: Atlanta Inno’s 25 Under 25, Create-X Start-Up Winner Technical Analyst Intern, Technical Services Manhattan Associates Atlanta, GA Jan 2020 – May 2020

Collaborated with the VP of Technical Services dept. to create a Node.js app to host all relevant function/technical specs regarding client extensions as well as providing functionality to initiate extension development

Developed REST APIs to integrate MySQL Database to keep track of code drops and their statuses and tested with Postman

Decreased application latency by integrating Memcached to replace traditional database-calls Previous Work Experience:

Technical Analyst Intern, Cloud Services Manhattan Associates (2019)

Georgia Tech Office of ERP, Project Management and Technology Intern (2018)

Cisco Systems, High School Extern (2016, 2017)

Projects/Research

Student Researcher with IoT in Health Team at Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA Jan 2021 - Present

Creating Blockchain-based ledger for Covid-19 vaccination records

Partners/Sponsors: Apple, Porsche, FDA, Qualcomm Research Assistant/Software Developer for Dr. Dhruv Batra Atlanta, GA Jan 2021 - Present

Working under the guidance of Dr. Dhruv Batra, Rishabh Jain, and Ram Ramrakhya working on the EvalAI platform

(https://github.com/Cloud-CV/EvalAI) at the intersection of software engineering and machine learning Research Assistant for Dr. Devi Parikh Atlanta, GA Aug 2020 – Dec 2020

Worked under the guidance of Dr. Devi Parikh in her Creativity + AI Initiative

Expanded on Dr. Parikh's ICCC'20 paper - "Feel The Music: Automatically Generating A Dance For An Input Song" to create novel visuals to accompany an input song

Applied computer vision to analyze poses in a dance and pair it to the best matching song in a dataset

Future work: generating audio to a dance video

Student Researcher with Automated Algorithm Design Team at Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA Jan 2020 – Dec 2020

Collaboratively developed a genetic programming framework to make stock market trading recommendations and portfolio optimization

Worked on a team to introduce an evolutionary Cartesian Genetic Programming framework to automatically optimize neural networks under the guidance of Dr. Greg Rohling and Dr. Jason Zutty

Partners/Sponsors: Google, L3Harris Technologies, Georgia Tech Research Institute Awards/Accomplishments

Governor’s Honor Program Finalist (Math)

Best Cisco Smart City Implementation Presentation

Medal of Honor awarded by Deputy Director of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Google CSSI Alumni

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