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Feb 03, 2023

Northeastern Gave Me the Courage I Needed To Succeed on Co-op

While studying at Northeastern, Karan R. Agrawal, MS’23, information systems, worked at Vantage Risk on a co-op as a data engineer starting. He believes his first-year courses equipped him for data engineering.

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

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Yuqi Fang

Oct 18, 2021

Pivoting to Tech Leads to Co-op and Full-Time Job at Facebook

Yuqi Fang, MS’21, information systems, wanted to pivot her career from psychology to information technology. She joined the information systems program at Northeastern’s Silicon Valley campus, and focused in web development and design. One of Fang’s notable endeavors was a Facebook hackathon, where participants build projects using Facebook programs. She did a co-op with Facebook’s privacy team, and is now a full time software engineer there.

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May 17, 2021

The Total MSIS Package: Courses, Mentoring, Co-op

Sai Kale joined the MS in information systems (MSIS) program in Spring 2020, immediately jumping into topics such as application engineering, web development, and user experience engineering. When asked why […]

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student posing in front of Northeastern University sign

Mar 16, 2021

Front-End Developer to Full Stack Engineer

Jayashree Patel, MS‘21, information systems, has always been enchanted by computer science and used to wonder how a few lines of code could lead to the development of software that […]

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