Projects
Most of my programming work can be found on my GitHub account: https://github.com/pixelatinate. A lot of my prior coursework is preserved there. The lack of recent commit activity is because nearly all of my day-to-day coding happens at work, which doesn't show up here.
Disco Fish
A WebGL scene I built for a Graphics class in college — drag the sliders to move the camera around, or switch between the inner and outer egg views.
DataStax
Summer 2022 Software Engineer internship — built a lab-documentation library and a Python tool that automated converting Google Docs into Markdown, saving the Support team from doing it by hand.
I spent the summer with DataStax's Support Operations team, working on a way to let the team's subject-matter experts turn their knowledge into hands-on lab guides that newer support engineers could learn from. After manually converting a backlog of existing training material into a consistent format — a process that got painfully tedious once image-heavy docs were involved — I wrote a Python tool, html2md, that automated the whole pipeline. I also wrote the documentation guidelines the team used to review and publish new labs going forward.
Slide through my end-of-internship presentation below (download the original PDF), or read my speaker notes underneath each slide.
Hi, everyone! I'm Swasti- I'm a rising senior at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville studying Computer Science, but I've been based in Boston this summer. These past ten weeks, I've been working with the Support Operations team, and it's been really pleasant. I've loved the work culture here, and how helpful everyone has been. Closer to the beginning of this project, I reached out to a few of you for help with documentation, and everyone responded with a lot of warmth, and I really appreciated that. So I'm looking forward to sharing what I worked on with you all- and with that, I will take it away.
Covid-19 & Cancer Consortium
Nov 2021 – Apr 2022, Web Developer — a multi-page site showcasing CCC-19's publications and their impact on COVID-19 research.
Built the website for the Covid-19 & Cancer Consortium, a multi-page site for a 120+ institution medical consortium. Used JSON and D3.js to visualize collaboration between the member institutions, and integrated the Altmetric API so visitors could gauge each publication's impact. I also evaluated and selected a hosting provider based on the consortium's needs and budget, then wrote documentation so the team could maintain the site independently going forward.
CatalogVisualizer
Aug 2022 – May 2023 — an interactive tool that helps UT Knoxville CS students plan which classes to take, and in what order.
Built with a fellow student, CatalogVisualizer helps University of Tennessee - Knoxville Computer Science students figure out which classes to take and in what order. A Python web scraper pulls the university's course catalog into a JSON file, which the site renders as nodes on a graph — using the LeaderLine library to draw connections between classes and their prerequisites or corequisites. It was requested by multiple professors and advisors, since it turns a confusing set of degree requirements into something visual and easy to plan around.