# Ananya Seelam

> SWE @ Google

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ananyaseelam

Mission driven engineer passionate about building consumer facing tools to help the world.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
Working on Chrome Search!

### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ Cornell University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Ithaca, New York, United States
Investigated ableism in socio-technical contexts and received paper acceptance at ACM FAccT 2025. Conducted a qualitative user study about fact-checking processes in rural and low resource communities in India and received CSCW 2024 acceptance.

### Co-Director @ Hack4Impact
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Ithaca, New York, United States
Led the Hack4Impact Cornell chapter of 50+ undergraduate student developers, designers, and business team members to build software tools and technologies for social impact organizations

### Technical Lead @ Hack4Impact
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Ithaca, New York, United States
- Worked as a Technical Lead for a project with the Earth Law Center (ELC). 
- Our aim is to help ELC create a website that allows legislators around the world to easily and effectively fill out and download high quality, eco-centric laws. 
- Scoped technical feasibility of the project and leading a team of 6 developers to carry out tasks to implement the website given designs from our team of designers.

### Software Developer @ Hack4Impact
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Ithaca, New York, United States
- Built a backend database using MongoDB for Farmworkers Justice, a nonprofit helping raise awareness to injustices faced by farmers, to create a web application that will visualize farmworker data (their pay, immigration status, etc)
- Used Express.js to several endpoints to aggregate farmworker data and filter based on various variables

### CS 3110: Data Structures and Functional Programming TA @ Cornell Computing and Information Science
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Ithaca, New York, United States
- Worked as a teaching assistant for CS 3110, a core CS course at Cornell. 
- Co-taught a recitation session every week where we help students reinforce what they have learned in class through practice questions
- Holding weekly office hours where students can ask questions about course materials
- Grading exams and assignments

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Worked on Google's Sustainability and Search team to improve search for Electric Vehicles!

### IBM Quantum Software Developer Intern @ IBM
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
Built a dashboard that tracks the health of various services managed by IBM Quantum

### Software Developer @ AI-Learners
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Ithaca, New York, United States
- AI-Learners is a platform for kids with disabilities to learn math in a fun and interactive way through personalized computer games
- Currently working on the frontend for their website using Firebase and React to store user data and build responsive UI components

### Engineering Intern @ Dell Technologies
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- Worked on a Chaos Engineering Project to improve the resiliency of the On-Premise Cloud Control (OPCC) software used by Dell’s APEX Cloud Services
- Used MongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js, and Node.js to build a Chaos Engine along with a UI that will allow developers to inject failures into OPCC and test its resiliency
- Used Litmus which utilizes Kubernetes to manage chaos workflows in our product 
- Created REST API server to handle and communicate data

### Fellowship @ Alliance for Climate Education
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
- Attended the United Nations Climate Action Summit and the Global Climate Strike in New York     during New York Climate Week. 
- Attended local city council meetings and clean energy hearings to advocate for sustainability
- Facilitated webinars and workshops to educate others about climate change.

### Software Developer @ Hack4Impact
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Ithaca
Worked with Life Camp, a nonprofit that helps youth affected by violence stay in school and out of the criminal justice system by allowing those affected to submit requests for help and responding to their needs. I helped create a webapp to streamline their survey data and visually show the information collected on graphs with filters based on location and request type

### Software Developer @ Hack4Impact
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Ithaca, New York, United States
Worked with a non-profit organization called Formally to design a form manipulation tool for immigrants and asylum seekers that makes it easier for them to complete and manage their immigration applications.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Cornell University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Enloe High School

### Natural Science
NC Governor's School West


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ananyaseelam

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Last updated: 2026-03-29