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Mahankali

Oct 13, 2022

Co-op to Full-Time Job to Career at Amazon Web Services

During her master’s program in information systems, Sonia Mahankali dove into a powerful co-op job at cybersecurity firm Appgate as a sales engineer, which led to a full time job offer. The experience she gained there set her up for her next career move to Amazon Web Services as a technical account manager.

Software Engineering and Information Systems

Shruti Kotian in a piece of Caterpillar Wheel Loader.

Oct 04, 2022

What and Why, Not Just How: Journey From Software Engineer to Product Manager

Main photo: Shruti Kotian, MS’19, information systems, onsite on co-op at Copart where the company stores salvaged cars and trucks for online auction. She learned about the whole process of […]

Software Engineering and Information Systems

Sam Salinas

Aug 31, 2022

PhD Spotlight: Sam Salinas, PhD’22 – Bioengineering

Sam Salinas, PhD’22, bioengineering, earned his undergraduate degree in aerospace and mechanical engineering. After working a few years in the biomedical industry he decided to go back to school. He […]

Bioengineering

Atul Nipane

Aug 11, 2022

MSIS Alumnus Pushes Patient Monitoring Forward

Atul Nipane graduated from Northeastern University with an MS in information systems in 2017. He is currently a software test engineer at Philips, a position he has held since October […]

Software Engineering and Information Systems

Parth Gargava

Aug 11, 2022

Bringing Blockchain Technologies to the Financial World

Parth Gargava joined Northeastern University in the Fall of 2016 as a MS in information systems student. Throughout his studies, Gargava focused on advanced data science, application development, machine learning, and artificial intelligence; but it was his passion for blockchain and cryptocurrency that ignited his career.

Software Engineering and Information Systems

Evan Kodra

Jul 27, 2022

Alum Evan Kodra Is Driven To Make a Difference

Evan Kodra, PhD’14, interdisciplinary engineering, co-founded risQ, a startup that factors the impacts of climate change and social equity into municipal investment decisions. With its success, he also established a graduate fellowship for future climate-change researchers at Northeastern’s College of Engineering.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

David Sequino

Jul 01, 2022

From Co-op Student to Co-op Sponsor—and Cheerleader

David Sequino, E’90, electrical engineering, is proud to say that every employee in the Boston office of his company, INTEGRITY Security Services (ISS), is not only a Northeastern graduate—but almost all were also former co-op students. As co-founder and chief executive officer of ISS, Sequino has been an enthusiastic supporter of Northeastern’s co-op program since the company was created in 2010.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Patrick Carey

Apr 21, 2022

In the ‘Spirits’ of Entrepreneurship Mechanical Engineering Alumnus Launches Company

In early 2016, childhood best friends Patrick Carey, E’06, mechanical engineering, and Jesse Sommer reunited to plot yet another entrepreneurial venture.  Inspired by the fervor of New York State’s budding […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering