# Mahi Pasarkar > Software Engineer II @ GEICO, Researcher, AI/ML Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mahipasarkar From a young age I always wondered how things worked. I would take apart toys to see the gears inside. This curiosity led me to programming. I made my first text adventure in batch in 5th grade, and by high school I was president of Senior Division Computer League! I'm a rising senior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and I'm dual majoring in Computer Science(with a concentration in AI and Data) and Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer II @ GEICO Tech Jan 2024 – Present | Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States - Working on GEICO’s in-house alternative to cloud platforms like AWS using Go, Python, PostgreSQL, and React JS. - End to end development of VP analytics dashboard to track cloud usage and spending. Designed backend system and specification, implemented back end and front end UI. Created customized graph components for our specific needs. - Coordinated with stakeholders to understand requirements for VP analytics dashboard and communicated these with UX designers and colleagues, serving as the source of truth regarding the dashboard and coordinating sprint goals. - Transitioned front end to confederated UI system, requiring adoption of Typescript, Vite, and HUE UI components. - Enabling demand intake in front end and backend for cloud resource types such as Kafka, Kubernetes, and VMs. ### Researcher, First Author @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Troy, New York, United States - First author, published by NASA and IEEE. Used natural language processing methods to transform unstructured disease reports into machine readable format. Published parsing system using open science principles to aid research. - Team Lead, designed system architecture in Python and divided work among coauthors to meet weekly OKRs. - Coordinated with experts in epidemiology, meteorological data, and disease modeling to learn domain knowledge. ### Lead Game Developer, Sole Proprietor @ Rainy Elephant Studios Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Troy, New York, United States Mrs. Hammerhands Project: - Demo showcased at Game Developer Conference - Developing 3D open-world first-person platformer with unique movement and combat mechanics based on a hammer. - Developed polished prototype in only a week with finished art, music, sound effects, character controller, 3 unique enemies, animations, and finished gameplay loop: https://rainyelephant.itch.io/hammer-time - Used Unity and C# to create a wave-based spawning system, a grappling hook, a hammer attack, enemy AI, and an upgrade system. - Used Unity Render Textures to create a pixelated effect. - Generated my own sound effects. - Composed music for the game. - Created all the 3D models. ### Global Regulatory CMC Intern @ Sanofi Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States - Working with the regulatory department on Accumulus Synergy and FHIR standard in XML in order to test the Accumulus platform and help bring healthcare data to a unified cloud. - Supporting product life cycle management by creating documents such as GRCSD and Product Overviews based on regulatory information from various documents using Veeva Vault, Word, and Sharepoint. - Performing queries and remediating data in Veeva Vault RIM to assist in data integrity. ### Full Stack Developer @ Submitty Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Troy, New York, United States - Developed EdTech software for computer science courses used by several universities, using PHP, Python, Javascript, Twig, HTML, CSS, and PostgreSQL - Developed major site features such as overhauling calendar system, adding pronouns to user profiles, and fixing major bugs such as assignment setting bugs and security for zip downloads that would expose answers to students. ### Open Horizon Contributor @ IBM Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Troy, New York, United States - Using Docker containers to deploy solutions to edge computing devices and Python and Flask to develop solutions. - Learning ways of working on large open-source projects, including version control, signing commits, and using issues. - Working on SmartAg project to help farmers using edge computing devices. - Contributing to service-qr-code-generator, which is used in SmartAg-foundation for onboarding, modifying, registering, un-registering, and identifying Edge Nodes. ### Swift Server Developer @ Shuttle Tracker Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Troy, New York, United States - Worked in a large team and learned skills in communication and teamwork on a large open source project that serves the school. - Designed solutions for server-end goals, such as receiving and storing analytics data from various front ends and calculating and displaying data quality for bus locations. - Implemented analytics endpoints in the server in the Swift programming language. - Managed several branches and changes using git. - Divided tasks using the issues page on Github. - Documented code and design in Github wiki. - Inputted and parsed data in JSON using Swift ### Summer Tech Intern @ Fair Lawn Public Schools Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Fair Lawn, New Jersey, United States - Learned teamwork skills within a team of 8 interns supervised by the IT department. - Deployed Windows 10 to all the computers in the school district, which were previously running Windows 7. - Set up hardware and software in optimal configurations to meet network performance requirements. - Upgraded hardware of computers in the district and then updated the software to the specified standards. - Resolved tech support tickets for teachers around the district. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ### High School Diploma Fair Lawn High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mahi-pasarkar - Portfolio: https://www.mahipasarkar.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/mahipasarkar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mahipasarkar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29