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Shikha dodecha

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Software engineer at The New School building research data pipelines and full-stack products.

United States

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At The New School's People's AI & Data Lab for Social Research, I built a checkpointed pipeline analyzing 36M+ records on occupational gender bias. I caught and fixed an API bug that had returned only 5% of the content, validated the findings against Census ground truth, and built a Chart.js dashboard.

At Simplilearn, I helped improve Lighthouse scores across 500+ pages and wrote batch scripts to migrate about 10M records. I also led a five-member team at Print Power Purpose to deliver a working merchandise-platform MVP, and built serverless and AI-powered projects using AWS and LangGraph.

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Software Developer

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The New School

Feb 2026 - Present (8 months)

Built a checkpointed, rate-limit-resilient pipeline over 36M+ records from 5 sources, feeding 4 embedding models. Caught a silent API bug that returned only 5% of content and had reversed a key historical finding; fixed it, validated against Census ground truth, and built a Chart.js dashboard.

Python PyTorch Hugging Face Word2Vec GloVe BERT RoBERTa BigQuery Chart.Js

Full Stack Developer & Technical Lead

Print Power Purpose

Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 (3 months)

Led a 5-member team across 4 sprints to deliver a working MVP to the sponsor, validated with Stripe test transactions and Postman. Populated the product catalog automatically from multiple print-vendor APIs for a custom merchandise platform supporting community causes.

React Supabase MongoDB Stripe API Jotform Postman

Software Engineer

Simplilearn

Jul 2021 - Mar 2023 (1 year 8 months)

Helped lift Lighthouse performance scores from 35–45 to 95+ across 500+ pages through code optimization, lazy loading, and caching. Wrote cron batch scripts migrating ~10M records from 20+ MySQL tables to MongoDB, with record-count checks and failure alerts.

React PHP Laravel MySQL MongoDB REST APIs Lighthouse Confluence