Ananya Sharma

Education technology company designing tools for applied data science and complex systems education. datajoins.com

• Developed and launched the core FastAPI backend and React frontend for a new learning platform, successfully deploying the initial product version to the cloud.
• Developed a role-based access control (RBAC) system with Firebase Auth, simplifying permission management for 4 distinct user tiers.
• Integrated Google Tag Manager as the first analytics framework, enabling the product team to track key user interactions from launch.
• Established the company's first automated CI/CD pipeline with Docker and GitHub Actions, replacing manual methods to ensure reliable deployments.

• Engineered performant D3.js visualizations capable of rendering and animating complex graphs with over 500 nodes in real-time.
• Reduced UI-related bugs by 25% by standardizing frontend components and ensuring cross-browser compatibility for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
• Increased frontend test coverage from 20% to 85% by authoring a comprehensive suite of unit and integration tests with Jest and Cypress.

AI-driven civic tech company advancing public sector

• Contributed to the end-to-end lifecycle of the 'CORPUS' project, from initial UX research to presenting final model capabilities to stakeholders.
• Developed a Bengali NLP model using TensorFlow, achieving 88% accuracy on a dataset of 10,000+ public records.
• Deployed the model as a REST API to enable real-time data processing for the primary civic portal.
• Implemented SHAP explainability dashboards to ensure the project met ethical AI standards for public sector deployment.

Global nonprofit focused on multilingual climate literacy. https://www.climatecardinals.org

• Improved site-wide page speed by 30% through performance and accessibility enhancements.
• Automated team workflows using Zapier and Google Apps Script, saving 10+ hours weekly.

Gamified stock trading platform for youth financial literacy. http://axare.co

• Drove UX improvements from wireframe to launch, contributing to a grant-winning pitch.
• Streamlined the user onboarding process via A/B testing and user interviews, reducing new user drop-off by 25%.

An interactive educational platform for visualizing and experimenting with graph theory algorithms. grapharena.com

• Developed 5+ core features using vanilla JavaScript, building mobile responsive, UI while implementing the supporting Firebase security rules
• Drove application, stability by conducting systematic QA testing, identifying and documenting over 30 critical bugs for the engineering team.