# Yukta R. > Software Development Engineer @ Workday Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yukta Software Engineer with 3 years full time experience in the security space, working extensively in areas such as Platform Security, Authentication and Privacy. Involved in the full software life cycle management, from working on design concepts to coding and testing implementations to delivering end-to-end products to customers. Experienced Engineer with strong programming skills in C++, Java, Scala, SQL with past experience in Go, Rust and Python. Background in data analytics and AI/ML with a degree in Data Science, with a strong concentration in Statistics and Computer Science. Completed projects in predictive tools, computer vision and LLMs. ## Work Experience ### Software Development Engineer - Platform Security @ Workday Jan 2022 – Present - Enhanced Workday’s Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) feature, Security org’s only monetized SKU, by enabling 10+ enterprise customers to take control of their own top-level encryption keys with more granular separation and increased security and trust. - Implemented a multi-phase Certificate Authority rollout to safely transition to a new root before top root expiration by coordinating a blast-radius-controlled deployment across 100s of teams through cross-org stakeholder alignment and close DevOps coordination to prevent widespread service outages. -Designed a resilient privacy system to identify, track, and purge millions of orphaned documents across the Workday ecosystem using pattern-based detection in Java and Workday’s proprietary language, XO, with a toggle-controlled rollout and metric monitoring to ensure trust and safe adoption to deliver transparent customer communication. ### Software Development Engineering Intern @ Workday Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 - Completed a full stack automation project to simplify the process of renewing an uber actor, an actor that distributes Certificate Authorities (CAs) to Workday servers, using React front end and Scala backend to add relevant user info to the Alpaca DB - Designed and implemented a tool using Ruby script and SQL queries that interfaced with AWS Lambda and integrated with Slack using multiple APIs to construct messages, notify the status of the uber actor, and to take action via Slack commands and modals - Worked with other interns at Workday to host a variety of events including a social event with CodePath interns and recorded a podcast in order to share learnings from the summer ### Data Scientist @ ELVT Govt Solutions Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Washington DC - Created an algorithm using python computational and mapping libraries to trace a key pharmaceutical ingredient (KPI) to country of origin in order to illuminate the supply chain - Designed a front-end dashboard to display relevant information such as risk scores based on their over all stability and Trade Agreement Act (TAA) approvals for each individual KPI as well as origin countries ### Software Engineer Intern @ InfluxData Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area - Worked hands-on with the Flux team to improve the Flux language focusing on creating special planner rules and feature flags to increase the query efficiency rates by over 20 seconds - Got experience working with Go and Rust as co-dependant compiler languages by re-designing the flux parser that created wrappers around Go standard library code in order to execute faster builds - Participated in the Intern Hackathon to create a custom SlackBot, hosted on a public server, that gave the status of specific tests in the CiCirle Pipeline through a slash command ### Data Analyst @ Michigan Data Science Team Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Ann Arbor, MI • Explored ways to find correlations among data sets pertaining to RateMe app and its user profiles to arrive at a conclusion on causations for higher ratings • Developed analysis graphs using Python Pandas library to read and manipulate various data points by parsing data from a CSV file in order to effectively show results of the RateMe app ### Director of Consulting @ 180 Degrees Consulting Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Ann Arbor, MI • Lead a team of four analysts to improve operations at Babel Movement by * generating a financial model to encompass the flexibility of the business * SEO data analysis and marketing initiatives to optimize their social footprint • Consolidated data from eight national chapters to track consistency and correlation in shipping methods to obtain a better understanding of cash flow in and out of the non profit organization, Blueprints for Pangea, while promoting new financial guidelines that ensured the fiscal health of all branches • Restructured the financial plan for Henry Ford Learning Institute to create a sustainable revenue growth model while providing a new lesson plan to help their goals of inspiring children who come from a low-income background through entrepreneurship ### Financial Analyst @ Alternative Investments Club Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Ann Arbor, MI • Researched Magellan Midstream Partners while learning the operations of the oil industry to analyze stock performances in order to show the potential of Magellan despite the backlash on the oil industry • Created a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Model for Foot Locker to understand the financial background of the company and ways to differentiate them with competitors in order to show promising investment in the declining retail industry using newly emerging e-commerce solutions ### Editor @ Michigan Journal of Business Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Ann Arbor, MI • Worked to consolidate and publish business research entries from around the world • Contributed to publishing Bi-yearly business journals ### Business Researcher @ University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Ann Arbor, MI • Understood the causes of various social and financial unethical behaviours in companies and ways to eliminate them in order to create more ethical and safer environments resulting in a deeper view on laws protecting large corporations • Analyzed the roles and responsibilities of the Board of Directors, specifically looking at the gender composition in the company boards, in order to improve the diversity and vertical communication • Comprehended the prevalence of "group thinking" psychology that prevents people from coming forth about issues that go against the status quo of the group, resulting in new findings to create more inclusive and open workspace environment ### Founder @ Litconnect Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Ramon, CA • Created a publishing platform for young authors in the community to give voices to students of all ages and backgrounds, while promoting the cognizance of learning disabilities resulting in a well-versed community through the creation of various social-media sites • Used various studies to find the best target market using surveys, market research and competitive analysis in order to create an impactful marketing strategy that yielded 50 sold copies and several donated books to local foster homes and organizations ### Board Member - Dougherty Valley DECA Chapter Officer board @ DECA Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Dougherty Valley High School, San Ramon, CA Vice President Dougherty Valley DECA 2017-2018 • Member of executive officer team responsible for running Dougherty Valley DECA chapter with over 150 members • Specifically focused on mentoring incoming freshmen members and integrating them into California DECA membership. Chapter candidate for position of Vice President of Northern California for DECA State officer board. 2017 Co-Vice President of Competition 2016-2017 ● Supervised competition team officers ● Oversaw lesson planning ● Facilitated weekly prep sessions ● Planned and lead district practice conferences and leadership conferences Director of Written Events – Business Operations Research 2015-2016 ● Mentored OR (Operations Research) competitors ● Conducted weekly prep sessions ● Participated as a judge in practice conferences ### Business Operations Research Projects @ DECA Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Dougherty Valley High School, San Ramon, CA Participated in Business Operations Research projects since freshman year. • Studied business operation on customer acquisition for Bose store in Livermore, CA. Researched on how to increase the flow of Generation Y customers into the store and engage them. 2014-2015 • Studied business operation on employee engagement for Bose store in Livermore, CA. Researched on how to enhance employee engagement in the store, focusing mainly on motivation and commitment. 2015-2016 • Studied business operation on customer engagement for Bagel Street Café, Dublin, CA. Researched on how business can adapt SOLOMO – Social Local Mobile strategy to increase awareness of their presence in the community and hence increase customer engagement. 2016-2017 • Studied business operation on customer retention for Brandy Melville, Walnut Creek, CA. Researched on how business can use various techniques to improve their store and online presence to adapt to new techonological deveolopemtns. 2017-2018 ### Co Editor-In-Chief - Year Book @ Dougherty Valley High School Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 Member of Year Book staff for Daugherty Valley year book - Triumph since freshman year. • Co Editor-in-Chief and Copy Writer – 2017-2018 • Assistant Editor-in-Chief and Copy Writer – 2016-2017 • Project Manager & Section editor – 2015-2016 • Staff Member – 2014-2015 ### Summer Intern @ Accela Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Accela provides enterprise Government software that streamlines land, permitting, asset, licensing, right-of-way, legislative management, and resource and recreation management processes • Performed competitive research regarding effective usage of social media. Reviewed the various parameters including frequency of product information posting, content of posting, number of followers and vastness of network, website organization and layouts. Created a SWAT analysis comparing Accela with their competitors • Performed comparative research on marketing materials including sales and marketing presentations and Keynote talks • Reviewed Accela’s marketing portfolio and created new version based on these competitive analysis ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Data Science University of Michigan ### Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA in Business University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Data Science University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 ### Dougherty Valley High School Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yuktarakesh --- Source: https://flows.cv/yukta JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yukta/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22