Sahana Hegde

- Drove program growth and mentored teams, guiding 80+ students across 10+ teams to build and deploy AI agents, supporting prompt design and retrieval-augmented generation for document-based Q&A systems. - Scaled outreach for AI hackathons (100+ builders, 24-hour sprint), expanding a 1k+ student, founder, and VC network, and increasing engagement by 20% through partnerships with Microsoft, Meta, and AWS.

- Engineered a multi-gateway transit solution using AWS Transit Gateway to optimize inter-VPC routing, improving network efficiency and reducing latency; deployed EC2 instances for testing and simulation, and configured IAM roles - Diagnosed and resolved 30+ security incidents, including EC2 misconfigurations, bucket permission errors, encryption gaps, and credential issues, improving system performance and mitigating cybersecurity risks for customers. - Optimized networking and server management by testing EC2 client-server connectivity across multiple Virtual Private Clouds, implementing Linux commands to deploy autoscaling EC2 groups with Application Load Balancer routing.

- Captain of UW Kahaani - Premier Collegiate Fusion Dance Team - Led and supervised a dance team of 20 or more members, coordinating choreography, practice schedules, and performance preparation for national dance competitions. - Managed event logistics, marketing, and sponsorships to increase community engagement and generate a considerable profit. - Organized and led a large-scale fundraising event with over 400 people, raising thousands of dollars for team activities and competition expenses. - Previous role as public relations head. Was responsible for making social media content, developing team merch, and scheduling team bondings and photoshoots to increase.

- Instructed K–12 students in computer science fundamentals, guiding them from basic logic and syntax to building working software projects. - Led after-school programs, workshops, and camps using project-based learning to reinforce real-world problem solving. - Adapted curriculum across age groups and skill levels, prioritizing accessibility, clarity, and student confidence. - Strengthened students’ computational thinking and technical literacy through hands-on coding exercises and interactive lessons.

- Delivered lectures to 200+ students in robotics and software development (Python, Scratch, Unity), guiding builds including 2D platformer games with collision detection, AI character movement, and LEGO robotics with sensor-driven navigation. - Designed and scaled 10+ project-based modules (event-driven systems, game physics, robotics control), debugging student code in real time and iterating on lesson structure to improve project completion and in-class engagement.

- Led end-to-end onboarding and feature education for communication tools (Auto Notices, announcements, messaging), transforming unclear workflows into structured user flows and driving a 15% increase in product adoption. - Identified 10 key user pain points through user engagement data and feedback, driving updates to feature placement and in-product guidance that improved discoverability and reduced friction in parent-teacher workflows. - Coordinated A/B testing on onboarding flows and feature messaging (e.g., notification prompts, feature walkthroughs), comparing pre-/post-launch engagement metrics to increase feature adoption by 20% and support rollout of updates.

- Designed, created, and frequently maintained a website for a club that promotes healthy living, ensuring that it was engaging, user-friendly, and consistent with the group's objective. - The website was regularly updated and improved with new information, such as event updates, resources, and articles, to keep members and visitors informed and interested. - Created and managed social media postings across several platforms, using innovative design and targeted messaging to increase the club's online presence and community involvement.

- Conducted analysis on advanced air mobility and airspace operations, evaluating flight routing, congestion patterns, and unmanned traffic management (UTM) systems for urban air mobility scenarios. - Developed 5+ sustainability-focused recommendations for green aviation (route optimization, reduced idle time, energy-efficient operations) based on research findings and data analysis.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science || Minor in Business Administration; DA to the Paul Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. Purple and Gold Merit Scholarship. Relevant Courses: Data Structures & Parallelism, Computer Programming I, II, & III, Hardware/Software Interfaces, Software Design and Implementation, Foundations of Computing I, Systems Programming, Accessibility in Software Design, Finance Foundations, Management in Workforce,