# Gitika Bose > Software Engineer at Microsoft | Interested in AI, Digital Health, and HealthTech Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/gitika Current Software Engineer at Microsoft with a Computer Science degree and specialization in Artificial Intelligence from Columbia University. I am passionate about making an impact by designing innovative solutions using Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, particularly in the HealthTech space. Please feel free to reach out to me as I am always looking to meet new people! ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer 2 @ Microsoft Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States Improving boot performance and reliability for PowerPoint Live on Teams by building a new set of stateless microservices that fetch PPTs from the file host and communicate with the renderer APIs. ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States Supporting microservices for PPT Live in Teams with improvements like a Redis cache layer to speed up file downloads and a service monitor setup to prevent regressions. ### Artificial Intelligence Researcher (Spoken Language Processing) @ Columbia University in the City of New York Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States Research in the SLP lab at Columbia University under Professor Julia Hirschberg 1. Using acoustic and prosodic features from videos scraped from BitChute and DailyMotion, studied how extremist groups on the internet are able to gain followers for their content. My focus for this research was right-wing extremist group QAnon. 2. Developed a model to segment videos by their background music 2. Applied ML models to improve feature quality and deep learning to discern the relationship between video content and viewer response. 3. Designed an emotion classifier to distinguish pro and anti QAnon videos ### Data Science Researcher @ Columbia University in the City of New York Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, United States 1. Increase efficiency of data cleaning at for researchers at FIST working on largest participatory farmer remote sensing insurance project addressing climate risk in develop countries 2. Created a timeseries database of flood damage in Bangladesh from social media sources to improve flood index insurance models developed at the Earth Institute ### Co-Founder @ Columbia Virtual Campus Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States Inspired by students battling COVID and its repercussions, we created CVC to help return a sense of community, safety and normalcy. - Used react in the frontend and firebase in the backend. - Built and managing a team of 30 board members to help facilitate the design, web development and organization processes. Ran tutorials in react and firebase for board members. - The website reached 400 viewers in over 2 weeks and is currently under reworking and development based on user research. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Sunnyvale, California, United States SWE intern in the PowerPoint Web Editing team - Developed a text margin feature that allows users to control the margins around text in shapes through the Format Options pane (accessible through right click menu) - Designed and implemented a tool that extracts useful user feedback on features in PPTO using a NLP model trained on UserVoice data. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Google Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California Improved the validation and release of new models in the Ads Policy team at Google. Worked on Google Ads backend infrastructure and core technologies that are used at Google. ### ADI Labs: Software Development Team @ ADI Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area ADI Labs is one of Columbia’s largest coding initiatives in which students build real life projects used by Columbia students. Selected to work on the Learner, in which we collect and analyze data using ML and NLP to then present our findings creatively. Currently working on a Geospatial Analysis of the Columbia Campus to compare the inclusivity in terms of gender neutrality and disabilities accommodation of bathrooms. ### Introduction to Computer Science (COMS W1004): Teaching Assistant @ Columbia University in the City of New York Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 As a TA for this required class, I conduct office hours to teach around 400 students relevant Java coursework and review homework material. I also grade tests and problem sets while corresponding directly with the professor. ### Co-Founder: Independent Project @ Medi-File Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area I created an app that stores users' medical history, allows sharing and filtering of data and auto-sets relevant medicine/appointment reminders. I used React Native (JavaScript) for the front end UI and Firebase for the backend with Expo for app hosting and testing. Through this experience, I got the opportunity to work in collaboration to create an app that I am passionate about. ### Software Engineer Intern @ OM Cash Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area Working with startup, OM Cash, an innovative decentralized platform for efficient financial transactions. I applied Javascript to help build their web app, which will work alongside the mobile app as an additional payment portal. I also learned about the implications of using blockchain and how to implement it using solidity. ### Software Developer Intern @ DiligenceVault Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area Working directly with the founding team of a Data and Technology Platform startup called Diligence Vault. Primarily, I have been performing UI testing for their website using Javascript framework, Protractor. I have further been exploring other softwares that may be applied to the website such as Keen IO. Through this internship, I have gained a better understanding of product development, business planning and project management. ### Youth Initiative Intern @ Asian Development Bank (ADB) Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | NCR - National Capital Region, Philippines In 2013, ADB had started a Youth Initiative to empower and mobilize young people in the fields of environment and climate change, water, gender, governance, education and jobs. I was challenged with the task of designing Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) toolkits that target the youth and support local communities. The aim was to reach 10 million young people and instill in them a desire to collaborate to make Agenda 2030, fulfilling all SDGs, possible. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Columbia University Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 ### Non Degree Option in Computer Science Stanford University Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 ### High School in International Baccalaureate International School Manila Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gitikabose --- Source: https://flows.cv/gitika JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/gitika/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22