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Vaishavi Jay Vaishavi Jay
CS & BA @ Northeastern Cloud and systems engineering, technical program management

I build cloud infrastructure and own it end to end. I've run production AWS systems across a 20+ brand portfolio, built data platforms from scratch, and led technical programs across cross-functional teams.

Technical Product Manager Cloud Engineer Software Engineer Platform Engineer DevOps Engineer
Recently
Developer
Waterside Group
Jan – Jul 2026
Education
Northeastern University
B.S. Computer Science & Business Administration
Expected 2027
Location
Boston, MA · Relocating to California
Core skills
AWSServerlessEvent-drivenSystems DesignIncident ResponseDevOpsPython
Selected work
Experience

Where I've worked.

Developer
Waterside Group
Jan – Jul 2026
Product Lead
Scout
Aug 2025 – May 2026
Data & Impact Fellow
NUCEE, Northeastern
Jan – Aug 2025
Data Analyst
Aspire Institute
Apr – May 2024
Developer
Waterside Group · Boston, MA
January 2026 – July 2026
  • Shipped a serverless Meta Ads reporting pipeline on AWS (EventBridge, Lambda, Meta and HubSpot APIs, S3/DynamoDB, Claude API, SES): automated weekly reports with 4-week trend analysis to 6 stakeholders.
  • Built a 17-property website audit system (Python Lambda, EventBridge, S3/DynamoDB, Claude summaries, SES) that surfaces SSL issues, broken links, and content gaps for ~$15–25 a month.
  • Sole owner of multi-client CRM integrations: built a Basecamp Brewing to Tripleseat polling Lambda, rebuilt the Harbor Lights to Tripleseat sync from a vendor codebase, and scoped a Marina to Molo integration.
  • Shipped a production AI chatbot on AWS Bedrock (Claude Haiku) for Longfellow Design Build: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB sessions, lead scoring, and a JS widget embed.
  • Built a Python pipeline that extracts historical customer records from Excel, Word, and PDF, using consensus-based field resolution across 4 iterations.
LambdaEventBridgeDynamoDBS3API GatewaySESBedrockCloudWatchSecrets ManagerIAMPythonHubSpot APIMeta APITripleseat API
Product Lead
Scout · Boston, MA
August 2025 – May 2026
  • Delivered a 6-page mobile-first website for an analytics-device and XR-simulator client, with pre-order flows, community onboarding, and in-site data capture.
  • Ran weekly sprints for a 10+ person cross-functional team, improving delivery timelines 25% and establishing a stable repo architecture.
  • Standardized CTAs and user flows across all pages, cutting sign-up friction 40%.
  • Led a brand refresh and translated user-behavior insights into engineering requirements that increased feature adoption.
Agile SprintsMobile-firstUser FlowsRoadmappingCross-functional CoordinationGit
Data & Impact Fellow
NU Center for Entrepreneurship Education · Boston, MA
January 2025 – August 2025
  • Led FY25 impact reporting across VMN, IDEA, and Mosaic, owning the full pipeline from collection and validation to visualization and delivery for 8,000+ students across three programs.
  • Scoped and documented NUCEE's first data strategy: workflows, data dictionaries, and onboarding guides that cut retrieval time 50% and created a repeatable system for future co-ops.
  • Directed data migration and an operations redesign for an affiliated org, rebuilding mentor and student tracking for 300+ mentors and 500+ students on a new platform.
  • Redesigned Princeton Review data collection after 20+ years, introducing documented, scalable reporting for Northeastern's national rankings submission.
AirtableSalesforceTableauChronusJupyterExcelData ModelingStakeholder Reporting
Data Analyst
Aspire Institute · Remote
April 2024 – May 2024
  • Analyzed alumni newsletter and digest performance (click rates, open rates, content engagement) across multiple send cycles to identify retention drivers.
  • Built dashboards in Tableau, Excel, and Google Sheets and presented strategy recommendations to the Aspire team.
  • Worked with 2 analysts on a unified report that contributed to an 18% improvement in alumni retention.
PythonTableauExcelGoogle SheetsData Visualization
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Open to new
opportunities.

Full-time roles in cloud, platform engineering, and technical product. California or remote.

Open to full-time · new grad, May 2027