About Me

Hi there! My name is Steve and I am a student studying computer science and math at Northeastern University. I am currently seeking full-time entry level software development roles starting May 2024, with interests in data analytics/probability and finance.

I am currently a co-op at the TJX Companies, where I work as a software engineer on the EBT-Finance team. Previously, I worked at iCorps Technologies, where I worked on the automation of previously manual reporting procedures for their clients. At Northeastern, I am a member of the student finance board, where I and 10 other appointed peers are responsible for the budgeting of $4M+ to studnet clubs and organizations. Previously, I was chosen by my peers to serve as a Liaison to the Dean's Office of my college, where I had the opportunity to facilitate changes to the curriculum of computer science major requirement CS3500, Object Oriented Design. I graduated from Shrewsbury High School (MA) in 2020, where I was class president and a captain of the debate team.

Some of my interests include sports, music, astrophysics, chess, reading, history, fitness, watches, and comedy. Contact me at asthana.a@northesatern.edu

Experience

The TJX Companies

I started my 6 month co-op at the TJX Companies in July 2023 as a Software Engineer. So far, it has been great learning the tech stack and helping my Agile team by taking on stories which involve the integration of a global treasury management application across all financial services. Additionally, I execute end-to-end testing, maintain software documetation and flow diagrams, and test NFRs for new integrations for the EBT-Finance team. I have been especially excited to learn about empoying DevOps practices to build and update Oracle EBS objects on the CI/CD pipeline including GitHub, Jenkins, and Ansible.

Technologies I worked with:

Accounting Solutions

This summer from May 2023 to August 2023, I worked at Accounting Solutions, a local accounting firm in Worcester, MA. As a freelance developer, I worked on establishing a web application allowing customers to calculate an estimation for their fees based on their tax forms. To do so, I held weekly code reviews until deployment. To ensure the best UX, I conducted manual testing with the client to ensure the application was easy to use and understand.

Technologies I worked with:

iCorps Technologies

In December 2022, I finished my first co-op at iCorps, an IT consulting company. During the co-op, I had the opportunity to work on the automation of previously manual reporting procedures for their clients, which helped to streamline their business processes and save them time and resources. In addition to implementing scripts and code myself, I lead a team of three developers to create a script incorporating previously implemented scripts with newly implemented ones to create one script for all managed services for the clients under Datto.

Technologies I worked with:

Lumos Debate

I worked part-time teaching public speaking and debate to middle and high schoolers. My responsibilities have included managing phone and email communication with student families, creating a curriculum for a four month semester, and managing the backend/tabulation for debate tournaments.

Projects

Tennis Odds Calculator

A JavaScript app calculating odds for a tennis game between any two user provided players. Choices between calculating odds for a game, set or match by leveraging Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations through matrix operations.
GitHub

In-app Soundtrack Implementation for Covey.town

Added in-game soundtrack support to Node based TypeScript React application, Covey.town, for CS4530. Utilized Spotify Web SDK and application to also handle Spotify user authentication at application login and allowing for song manipulation in soundtrack. Followed agile practices including weekly code reviews.

Image Processor

A photoshop-like image processor written in Java with a GUI that allows users to apply filters and transformations to PPM, PNG, and JPG photos. The application includes features such as cropping, resizing, applying filters and color transformations like grayscale and blur, and renaming along with save/load.
GitHub

European Soccer Database

Established a European soccer database using MySQL as the backend and Java as the frontend. Users can view league standings and stats for various teams and leagues. The database is regularly updated with the latest match results and player stats.
GitHub

Freecell Solitaire

A string based UI for a freecell solitaire game in Java using the Model View Controller and Command design patterns. Allowed the user to make single or multi-card movements.
GitHub

Maze Game

A maze game in Java in which the player must navigate through a generated mazes to reach the end. The game includes solutions that can be provided to each maze using either depth first search or breadth first search.
GitHub

Flood It Game

A game with a square board with different colored tiles with the end goal being to have the user fill the board with one color. Inspired by the game found here.
GitHub

Extracurricular Activities

Northeastern Student Government

As a senator for Khoury College, I currently serve on the finance board. As a board member, I am tasked with the budgeting of funds to each student club and organization request, and ensuring organization expenditures confide with the rules and budget request.

Previously, I served as the Liaison to the Dean's office for Khoury, the college of computer sciences. As the liaison, I worked with the Dean's Office to implement Wellness Days for students to take up to two days off from class with no reflection on attendance with the exemption of days with exams. Additionally, I worked with students and faculty to inact curriculum changes to CS3500, Object Oriented Design.

Shrewsbury High School

As a high school student, I was a captain on my Speech and Debate team, where I competed in Extemporaneous speaking. I ranked third nationally and first in New England. I continue to stay in touch with the Speech and Debate community through tutoring, and contributing to extempers.org, a website focused on providing top-tier resources at no cost to competitors across the country.

Throughout high school, I was also president of the Class of 2020, which led to me becoming the president of an official non-profit!