Shashank Sharma

shashank.sharma@rutgers.edu | (512)-506-0431
EDUCATION
Class of 2020
Sept. 2016 May 2020

Summer 2015

R U T G E R S U N I V E R S I T Y N E W B R U N S W I C K B. Sc. in Computer Science - Honors

Relevant coursework:
-Intro to Computer Science, Data Structures, Discrete Structures 1, Linear Algebra
-Taking next semester: Systems Programming, Computer Architecture

M A K E S C H O O L Summer Academy App Track

Make school is a YC company that runs a college alternative program and a summer academy. During their
summer academy boot camp, I learned everything required to make an end to end app/game to ship to the
store using the Swift programming language, from designing and development to user testing and polishing

2012-2016

EDISON HIGH SCHOOL

Participated in the national FTC Robotics competition as the captain of our team, placing in the top 5 teams
Took 11 Advancement Placement Classes (Calculus 1, 2, Comp. Sci, Chemistry, Statistics, US History, etc.)
Presided over our schools Robotics Club, Science Society, and UNICEF/Red Cross clubs
LEADERSHIP

U S A C S (Undergraduate Student Alliance for Computer Science)

C O D E D A Y N J Organizing Team and Mentor
H A C K R U Sponsorship Team
R U M A D (Rutgers Mobile App Development)

PROJECTS

DRIVE
Drive is a dashboard camera system that uses computer vision and the Intel RealSense SDK to detect when a
driver is drunk, drowsy, or distracted while driving. When it detects a drunk driver, Drive calls an Uber, and
when it detects a driver falling asleep or texting while driving, Drive plays an alarm
I developed part of the facial detection part of the hack, along with the iOS app to call the Uber, etc.

DJAY
DJay is a collaborative playlist building system that essentially uses natural selection to move the playlist
towards a partys preferred music type. All members of the party receive a 1000 points to begin, and can bid
on songs, with any number of points. The higher the bid, the sooner the song plays, and if a certain percentage
of the party favorites your song request, you get points back, giving you the ability to keep requesting songs
I developed the points system and implemented the Spotify API to search for songs, along with adding pebble
gesture control in the last hour of the hackathon to allow you to skip songs/raise volume by moving your wrist

TRANSACTR

Transactr is a system to keep track of your cash spending habits. We put an accelerometer in a wallet so that
whenever it was opened, you would get a text asking how much money you spent. Transactr then uses your
phone to record your location, date, time, and how much money you spent, and then presents all this
information in a credit card statement fashion, making it easy to keep track of your cash spending.
I analyzed the pebble accelerometer data, along with working the Verizon Cloud SDK to develop the web app
AWARDS
2016

August 2016
April 2016
April 2016
October 2016

W O R L D W I D E D E V E L O P E R C O N F E R E N C E S C H O L A R S H I P Apple Inc.
Recipient of Apples WWDC scholarship for my work on Connectd (350 people out of 5000+)
Connectd is an iOS app that uses a loophole in the HomeKit SDK to add non HomeKit devices to the HomeKit
system, allowing the use of Siri to use any Internet of Things device such as the Nest Thermostat.
D J A Y MLH Prime Hackathon Finale
Best use of Capital One API and Bose Sound Touch API
D R I V E HackBCA 3
Code for Good Award
T R A N S A C T R HackRU Spring 2016
Best use of Capital One API
P A P E R T R A I L HackRU Fall 2016
Best Security Hack

TECHNICAL
SKILLS
Proficient:
Familiar:
Learning:

Java, Swift/iOS development, JavaScript, Arduino, Git, Shell

Python, C, C++, C#, Node.js, Android development, Sketch, HTML, CSS
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, React