BORN AND RAISED IN NEW YORK, TEJASRI VIJAYAKUMAR IS CURRENTLY WORKING IN MARKETING HYPERALLERGIC. A RECENT GRADUATE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY WITH A DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND VISUAL ART, LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE FROM HER TIME AS THE STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA, AND MORE, TEJI IS INTERESTED IN THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN POLICY, DATA, AND DESIGN.
Education
Columbia University,
Manhattan, New York Class of 2024
B.A.
Computer Science and Visual Art
Relevant
Coursework: Fundamentals of Computer Systems, Advanced Programming in C, Computational
Linear
Algebra, Honors Data Structures, UI Design, Artificial Intelligence
Riverdale
Country School, Bronx, New York Class of 2020
President
of Student Council, Leader of Asian American Alliance, Editor in Chief of "Impressions" art
magazine,
Captain of Varsity Fencing and Crew
Experience
Software
Engineering Intern, Warner Bros. Discovery, New York City, June - August 2023
Built post-deployment
score dashboard to evaluate Kubernetes deployments using Prometheus and Grafana on kube-state-metrics
data
Built and deployed Kubernetes clusters locally to test my queries before publishing them
Attended
daily standups and worked within an agile workflow
Presented a demo to the SVP and Director of my
team as well as managers from related departments
Student
Body President, Columbia College Student Council, May 2023 - Current
Sit on several student-faculty
committees such as the Mental Health Collaborative, the FGLI Student Working Group, the Student Health
Advisory Committee, and more
Allocated >$1 million budget to student groups and organizations
Previously
VP Communications (2021-2023) and Class Representative (2020-2021), lead Communications committee,
managed CCSC website, wrote weekly newsletter to student body
Innovation
+ Research Design Intern, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, May - August 2022
Helped prepare files
for final delivery, which includes proofing, retouching, pre- and post-production, versioning, resizing,
and updating design assets with new images or copy as needed
Provided graphic design support for a
variety of print and digital content, including tables, charts, figures, infographics, posters, logos,
and AR/VR models using Adobe Premiere and After Effects
Digital
Content + Communications Intern, The Jewish Museum, New York, June - August 2021
Developed a budget
allocation for the marketing of Afterlives, an exhibition at the museum, including print advertising,
paid and organic social media, subway dios, and digital advertising via Facebook, Google Display
Networks, and Google Analytics
Researched and developed a plan for the museum to reduce its
reliance on third party data
Research
Intern, Columbia University, New York June 2018 - August 2020
Developed a high resolution Cryo-EM
Structure of 70S Ribosomal Initiation Complex bound to an ATP-Trapped EttA using RELION-3, cryoSPARC,
and PyMol
NYCSEF Finalist in Biochemistry
Presenter at AJAS conference during AAAS 2020 in
Seattle
Skills: Python, Go, Java, C, HTML, CSS, Kubernetes, Docker, Scala, Adobe Creative Suite
Accomplishments
NYCSEF,
3rd place regional finalist in Biochemistry (March 2019)
Artwork was exhibited at the Bronx Museum
of Arts as part of "The Mind's Abstraction" (May 2018) and by No Longer Empty, exhibited at Jameco
Exchange, Jamaica, NY (May 2016)