# Vanshika C.

> Software Engineer at Stripe

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vanshika

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
[F20] 15-210: Parallel Data Structures and Algorithms
[S21] 15-259: Probability and Computing
[F21] 15-251: Intro to Theoretical CS
[S22] 15-251, 15-259 (Head TA)

As a regular TA, held office hours each week, designed problems for assignments, exams, and recitations, and taught two - three recitations of 20+ students each week. As head TA, additionally organized logistics and administrative work and managed other TAs duties.

In 2022, received the Alan J. Perlis Undergraduate Student Teaching Award.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Stripe
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Part of the Document Databases Developer Platform team. Improved internal tooling to view and analyze Mongo databases' metadata (load time improved from 30s to <2 s). Designed and implemented new pages that provided summary information on usage and integrated new sources of data for a more holistic view.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Stripe
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
- Automated process for retraining models; reduces model drift from up to 30% to at most 5% with at most 10 min of eng time/month
- Wrote SQL queries to compute model performance metrics and statistical error and added automated deploy recommendations on new dashboard; now used as standard for other dashboards

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
15-151: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Designed and implemented React Native app that matched peers with requests and offers for delivery and tutoring services
Constructed SQLite database and REST API endpoints and devised notification system
Used Google Places API, location clustering algorithm, and SVM to learn and predict user’s location and activities at any time to make service matching more proactive and effective

### Summer Internship @ Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Worcester, Massachusetts
Participated in the BCB Summer Research Experience at WPI, where I worked with another student to create a data visualization for the app SlipBuddy that would inform users of factors that caused them to overeat and provide them with instructions on what to avoid.

### Student @ Girls Who Code
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Boston Area
Participated in the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program in 2016, where I learned how to code in Scratch, Python, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and Arduino-C. The program culminated in a week-long final project where my group and I created the mobile web app Walk With Me, dedicated to keeping women safe on the streets.


## Education
### B.S. in Computer Science in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022

### Westborough High School
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vanshika-c-79069b126

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Last updated: 2026-03-22