# Samiksha Pal

> Engineering @ Baseten

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Baseten
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Virtual
Working on Secure Federated Learning for Clinical Informatics with Applications to the COVID-19 Pandemic under Professors Sanmi Koyejo and Dakshita Khurana, funded by C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute

### Course Assistant for CS241: Systems Programming @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

### Course Assistant for CS225: Data Structures @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

### Project Manager @ Gies Disruption Lab
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Director @ Reflections | Projections
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

### Software Engineering Intern - Cloud-Native Kafka @ Confluent
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Virtual
Added relevant JMX metrics for Trogdor Agents and Tasks in KIP-627 to Trogdor, Apache Kafka’s testing framework
Introduced chaos engineering through network fault injection to Confluent Cloud by extending Trogdor’s fault injection capabilities with a new CloudNetworkFault and integrated this with Confluent’s automated cloud testing

### Software Engineering Intern - Node.js Driver @ MongoDB
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York
Developed various user-requested changes to error handling and testing of the Node.js Driver, improving its usability
Designed and implemented a new testing framework using Mocha.js for the entire Node.js Driver, focusing on its design, introducing better functionality, minimizing startup and teardown costs of running tests, and general performance

### Web Developer @ The Daily Illini
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Urbana-Champaign Area
Responsible for the Web Development of a couple of key stories written by The Daily Illini

### WCS Head of Corporate @ Illinois Women in Computer Science
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

### WCS Corporate Committee @ Illinois Women in Computer Science
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

### Technology Intern - Digital Subscriptions Backend @ The New York Times
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York
Integrated with Google Cloud Platform to make testing cost-effective using Cloud Functions 
Worked on a project to integrate entire subscription process with a new payment processor 
Used Cloud Dataflow to optimize a Cron job that previously ran in Google App Engine 
Gained a familiarity with the Agile methodology and continuous delivery disciplines

### President @ Women In Tech
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Cupertino High School
Lead outreach program that teaches basic coding to students at local elementary schools, provided opportunities and guest speaking events for the members.

### Captain of Varsity Girls Golf Team @ Cupertino High School
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cupertino High School
Was recognized as a Scholar Athlete during my freshman and sophomore year, served as co-captain of the team.

### LinkedIn Dev High School Trainee @ LinkedIn
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View
I was directly immersed in the environment I hoped to prospectively work in. In a nutshell, this trainee-ship validated my then-prospective career choice. I had the opportunity to gain more coding experience. We delved deeper into the integration between HTML, CSS, and Javascript, primarily using various types of server requests. Additionally, we made Flask applications using Python, and integrated with databases made using SQL. The other trainees in my team and I were privileged with working on a project that would later potentially go live on the LinkedIn blogs website. We were tasked with implementing the design and functionality for ‘subscribe’ buttons on the blog sites. This would eliminate the usage of a third-party form submission and streamline the subscription process used.

### Student Programmer @ Girls Who Code
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Intuit
Learned to program in Scratch, Python, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, JQuery, Java
Gained exposure to working in a professional setting/environment (Intuit Campus)
Completed a final project showcasing skills learned (Code2College)


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science, Hoeft Technology & Management
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### High School Diploma
Cupertino High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13