Namita Gupta

Air pollution is one of the biggest health hazards of our times. We are a tech for good organisation that is building data driven solutions to solve a global problem.We provide comprehensive and affordable air quality monitoring solutions for both indoor and outdoor environments. Our mission: * To help people lead healthier lives by helping manage their air pollution exposure everywhere. * To make air quality data readily available for governments and policy makers. * To drive awareness and empower citizens to act for better air quality and environment.

Worked on Ads, Pages, Developer tools, Mobile Platform.

Developed strategy, and drove Bing search feature integrations into Microsoft ecosystem of products like Office, IE, toolbar etc. to drive Bing brand and query share. Created and led a team for development and distribution of client modules like toolbar etc. to drive Bing defaults in browsers and enable great personalized search experiences when there are client bits on machine. Led technology integration of Natural language processing startup Powerset into Microsoft. Bing Search Labs: Helped bridge research and product to integrate deep tech like contextual descriptions, reputation networks, query refinement and query classification to help differentiate in core search.

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) & Silverlight : Microsoft’s next-generation platform for writing rich client and web based applications. Designed and led Data binding and Styling which are some of the most loved features of WPF/Silverlight. In addition I was instrumental in building core areas like Property engine, commands as well as all user facing Controls and our 3rd party component vendor platform. Managed a small team of kick-ass Program Managers in Redmond and also led an offshore team in China who built some key user facing controls.

Research intern working on shape recognition algorithms and Computer vision. Received award for best intern project presentation at IBM research labs.

Graduated 2nd in class.