Reshma Raghavan - IT Engineer
WEB 4863supervisor Dr. Manish Parashar
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Background
Reshma holds a Master of Software Development from the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah, completed in December 2023. She also has a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication and an MBA in Communication Management. Previously, she worked in advertising, language editing, and teaching.
Reshma pivoted to software engineering in 2022. After earning her degree, she interned at a local startup, and transitioned to a full-time role there as an MLOps engineer before joining the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute in August 2024.
Current Responsibilities
As an IT Engineer at the SCI Institute, Reshma contributes to full-stack development efforts, including work on the National Data Platform web portal. She is actively expanding her knowledge in cyberinfrastructure with a focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is learning to design and implement CI/CD pipelines for software deployment.
Her responsibilities span both frontend and backend development, and she supports infrastructure initiatives that help streamline research workflows and data delivery across distributed systems.
Research Interests
Reshma is interested in cloud computing and DevOps practices, particularly the development and maintenance of scalable, reliable infrastructure in research and academic environments. She aims to deepen her expertise in both frontend and backend technologies to build responsive, user-centric platforms.
She also maintains a strong interest in machine learning and is focused on growing her skills in this area, with a long-term goal of applying ML to real-world problems in scientific computing and data-intensive research.