Software Engineer @ Working in the Payments Customer Engineering team. Develop features for the new PayPal checkout experience. From January 2014 to Present (2 years) Masters' student @ MS in Computer Science, specialization in HCI From August 2012 to December 2013 (1 year 5 months) Software Development Intern @ Was part of the Payments Customer Engineering team at PayPal.
Developed a feature to integrate the PayPal checkout flow with social media applications. Aim was to provide the ability for a one click checkout from within the application.
Created an Android mobile application to enable checkout on TV with PayPal. From May 2013 to August 2013 (4 months) Software co-op @ Worked on a project to build a desktop-based tool to automate employee-driven timesheets. The application monitors real time software usage data by keeping track of active processes on the user’s desktop.
Was responsible for tracking usage statistics of active OS processes using a dynamically updated database. Technology used- Java, .NET, MySQL From January 2012 to May 2012 (5 months) Senior Fellow @ Was a part of the organizing team of TedxBMS as the coordinator and curator of the content team.
Presented case studies on influences of media and sustainable technology with intercultural, inter-disciplinary groups in the annual Melton Foundation symposia. From May 2009 to May 2012 (3 years 1 month)
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science @ Georgia Institute of Technology From 2012 to 2013 Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer and Information Sciences, General @ BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore From 2008 to 2012 Amritha Arakali is skilled in: Software Development, HCI, Information Visualization, Algorithms, C, Software Engineering, C++, Java, User-centered Design, .NET