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Sonia Bendre

Sonia Bendre

Industry

  • Fellowships: Neo Scholars Finalist, Bessemer Finalist, Jane Street INSIGHT (SWE), Palantir Launch, DE Shaw Nexus, Bridgewater Immersion.
  • Product @ Databricks: Optimized a multimillion-dollar ingestion product for thousands of enterprise clients as one of 7 interns in Databricks' second-ever Product Management Intern cohort. Read my article — Databricks' first blog post about product internships.
  • SWE @ Microsoft: Launched Power Automate's natural language widget to enable integration of copilot feature across products like Excel and Teams.
  • PM + SWE (Explore) @ Microsoft

Dartmouth Involvement

  • Senior Honors Thesis: Creating an AI video editing agent under Professor Yu-Wing Tai.
  • Women in CS Club Co-President: Lead 16 executives and 400+ members. Spearheaded Dartmouth's first-ever coordinated Grace Hopper Conference trip, worth $20,000+.
  • DALI Lab Professional Development Lead and Developer: Mahjouba initiative — revolutionizing the electric vehicle industry in Morocco by leveraging the local craft sector.
  • Robotics Club Co-Founder: Co-founded Dartmouth's first-ever student robotics club, with $10,000 in funding from the National Havoc Robot League.

Life Beyond Tech

  • Traveling: On a mission to experience the world. At 22, I've been to 34 countries ( ~14% of the world). This year alone, I will have visited 15 new countries.
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  • Desi Lagos Radio Show: At 17, I launched and hosted a radio show that had 14K listeners.
  • Music: Self-trained singer and guitarist.