Rithika's Resume

Contact: rkrox24@gmail.com

Education

Rutgers University Honors College           
2016-2020

Bachelor's of Science (B.S) in Computer Science and Business Administration

Leadership

- Founder + C.E.O of Village, a part of Mozilla's social good start-up incubator
- Technology Director, Women in Computer Science
- Honors College Student Advisory Board

Skills

Advanced: Java, Python, PowerBI, Data Analytics

Proficient: SQL, iOS Dev, Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects

Beginner: UI/UX Design, Web Dev

Hobbies

Playing in amateur spike ball, pickle ball, and volleyball leagues

Learning how to do bad magic tricks

Re-watching The Office


Experience

Technical Program Manager, Microsoft Responsible AI Team   

2022 - Present

  • Championed a safety prompt engineering v-team with research, policy, and design experts from across the company to drive the creation of guidance and templates to mitigate harms presented by generative AI models. Currently leading this team to develop a library of prompt engineering resources to publish internally and externally
  • Developed and launched a RAI technical implementation guidance for teams to deploy large language models (like GPT-4) responsibly.
  • Streamlined the process to educate and onboard customers onto our AI safety system with Azure OpenAI Service. Set up and managed an RAI for generative AI company-wide newsletter and office hours to better educate and train teams

Program Manager + Data Analyst, Microsoft AI For Good

2020 - 2022

  • Facilitated the development of customized features for Return To School, a solution that helps schools reopen safely by helping manage and visualize COVID contact tracing, attestation, and testing.
  • Led the deployment of the solution in over 4 WA school districts and 3 HBCU universities (>20K students and faculty each) to update customizations, conduct training and live testing of the solution
  • Created Washington's COVID-19 vaccination data dashboards as the primary product manager and data engineer. Awarded by our VP of Data Analytics and Washington’s Chief Information Officer
  • Initiated the development of a standard Responsible AI process for our health research team (30 people) when onboarding new external partners

Part-time Server, Hostess, and Bartender, Multiple Venues

2016 - Current

  • Passionate about working in service with over 4 years of diverse experiences in different positions. Previously have worked at Panera, Ten Degree Bar, Goa, and Michelin ranked Semma
  • Responsibilities include providing custom food and drink recommendations, staffing the bar and hostess stand, managing reservations and staff schedules, and serving orders