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Abhinaya Guduru

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Hobbies & Interests

  • Drawing And Illustration
  • Photography and Photo Editing
  • Dance
  • Movies And Film

Reading

  • Mystery
  • Realistic Fiction
  • Suspense
  • Novels
  • Romance

I read books multiple times a month.

Bio

I am a junior at UTSA pursuing Computer Science with minors in Business Administration & Cybersecurity, maintaining a 3.90GPA as an Honors student. What drives me isn't just writing code but building solutions that create real-world impact. I've been selected for the AWS Reachback Technical Cohort & the Break Through Tech AI Fellowship at Cornell (chosen from 3,000+ applicants). As a Research Assistant at UTSA, I'm developing an NLP pipeline analyzing financial exploitation of older adults. This work earned me the Distinguished Research Award & led to my first submission to ACM CHI. Previously, I led a 20-person team at Sports Media Inc., boosting user engagement by 30%. I don't just learn in the classroom. I've attended HackTX, HackUTD, the 2025 SWE National Conference, & the TASSCC Conference, constantly pushing my boundaries. Whether building an ASL recognition app or collaborating with Arity on machine learning models, I create technology that matters. What sets me apart? I see the bigger picture. With my business minor & product strategy experience, I'm preparing to become a solutions architect & product manager who translates technical capabilities into business value. I balance rigorous technical work with leadership & have contributed to multiple research & analytics projects. Beyond my 200+ hours at the San Antonio Food Bank & involvement in UTSA's Indian Cultural Student Association, I bring authenticity to everything I do. I'm not waiting for my career to start—I'm building it now, one project & breakthrough at a time. https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinaya-guduru/

Education

The University of Texas at San Antonio

Bachelor's degree program

2023 – 2027

Majors:
  • Computer Science
Minors:
  • Business Administration, Management and Operations

Miscellaneous

Majors of interest:
Computer Science
Medical school interest:
No

Career

  • Enterprise Application Support

    Technology · UTS Application Development Support

    Jan 2025 – Present

  • Technology Specialist - Compliance & Community Engagement

    Technology · UTS Bold Careers Program

    Jan 2025 – Jan 2025

  • Data Analyst

    Computer Software · Data Analytics Center @ UTSA

    Jan 2025 – Jan 2025

  • UTS Bold Careers Program Intern

    Technology · UTS Bold Careers Program

    Jan 2024 – Jan 2024

  • Student Ambassador @ UTSA

    Design · Adobe

    Jan 2024 – Present

  • Equitable Externship Program

    Financial Services · Equitable

    Jan 2025 – Jan 2025

  • Recruiting Intern

    Human Resources · Robotics for All

    Jan 2024 – Jan 2024

  • Team Leader and Website & SEO Developer

    Computer Software · Sports Media Inc.

    Jan 2024 – Jan 2024

Miscellaneous

Dream career field:
Computer Software
Dream career goals:
My long-term goal is to become a Solutions Architect or Product Manager at a leading tech company, where I can bridge the gap between technical innovation and business strategy. I want to lead cross-functional teams in developing products that solve complex problems at scale, particularly in areas like AI/ML and cloud computing. I'm strategically building toward this by combining my Computer Science degree with minors in Business Administration and Cybersecurity, gaining hands-on experience through research, internships, and competitive programs like the AWS Reachback Technical Cohort and Cornell's Break Through Tech AI Fellowship. My experience leading a 20-person team and working on impactful projects like analyzing elder financial exploitation has shown me that I thrive at the intersection of technology, leadership, and social impact. Ultimately, I want to create technology that doesn't just work well but makes a meaningful difference in people's lives, whether that's improving accessibility, enhancing security, or solving critical societal challenges.itical societal challenges.
Has nursing license:
No

Future Interests

  • Volunteering
  • Philanthropy
  • Entrepreneurship
Patricia Lindsey Jackson Foundation-Mary Louise Lindsey Service Scholarship
A Splash of Color, A Sense of Home There is a particular kind of longing that lives quietly inside every immigrant family, a homesickness that never fully goes away, no matter how many years pass or how well life unfolds in a new country. I did not fully understand this until I stood in the middle of a yard covered in clouds of pink, yellow, and green powder, watching a classmate's mother wipe tears from her eyes. She had not celebrated Holi in over six years. A visa restriction she had no control over had kept her from going back. And yet, for one afternoon in a backyard in America, she was home. That moment is why I became president of my school's Indian Cultural Club. I grew up straddling two worlds, deeply proud of my Indian heritage while also navigating the very real feeling of not fully belonging anywhere. As an international student, I understood firsthand what it meant to feel unmoored, to miss something you cannot easily name or reach. When I joined the Indian Cultural Club, I saw an opportunity not just to celebrate culture, but to create a sanctuary for everyone who carried that same quiet ache. Organizing our Holi festival was the most meaningful thing I did as president. On paper, it was an event, permits, supplies, permission slips, coordinating with administration. In practice, it was an act of restoration. I had to fight for the event to be taken seriously, to convince people that this was not just a messy afternoon activity but something sacred to an entire community. I had to rally students who were stretched thin with academics and extracurriculars, and I had to make the event welcoming not just to South Asian students, but to every friend and classmate who had ever been curious about a culture that was not their own. What I did not expect was how much it would mean to the parents. Families showed up. Some had been in the United States for a decade and had never had a space like this. Some of the students had never experienced Holi at all, born here, raised here, loving a country they had never been able to visit because of paperwork and policy that felt completely out of their hands. Watching those students throw color for the first time, laughing and breathless, I understood service differently. It is not always about solving a grand problem. Sometimes it is about handing someone a moment they thought they had lost. This experience taught me that leadership is an act of empathy before it is anything else. You cannot lead people well unless you first understand what they are carrying. For me, that understanding was personal, I was not just the president organizing an event, I was also the international student who knew what it felt like to miss your motherland on an ordinary Tuesday. That shared vulnerability, rather than being a weakness, became the most powerful tool I had. It allowed me to build something real, because it came from something real. Service, I believe, is rooted in seeing people fully, not just their needs, but their dignity, their stories, and the invisible weight they carry without complaint. My faith in community, and in the responsibility we have to one another, was cemented in that gymnasium, surrounded by color and noise and the laughter of people who, just for an afternoon, did not feel so far from home. My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinaya-guduru/
Book Lovers Scholarship
If I could have everyone in the world read just one book, that book would undoubtedly be one’s personal diary. A personal diary serves as an archive of one’s actions and experiences, offering insight into the vast tapestry of an individual’s existence. Within the pages of their dairy, a lot can be said through a person’s thoughts and feelings but when written down, it emphasizes just how much a person has been through. In a diary, the full spectrum of human experience unfolds, encompassing both moments of joy and sorrow, the creation of cherished memories, and the endurance of heartache. Yet, it is the act of meticulous documentation that gives these experiences such importance. Reading through happy memories brings back a nostalgic feeling that was once forgotten but in the end, nobody is perfect. Everybody has a time when they felt their life crumble apart in their very own hands with no sense of control and a person reading that in their very own diary from the past helps a person reflect on themselves and how much they have changed. A diary serves as a form of reflection for an individual to reflect on how much change there has been since back then, to reflect on how relationships have changed over the years, to reflect on how many embarrassing things they have done in the past but overall, to truly reflect on how much a person has grown throughout their entire life. People change and people bloom into the person they are and while the prospect of personal growth may be daunting for many, their diary has documented the entire process of how a person became who they are, throughout their entire life. A person's diary is so close to one’s heart because of how personal and fragile it is. It contains so many concealed secrets, so many memories, an array of thoughts, emotions, lived experiences, issues, and so much more that have made an individual’s life journey a better one. A person's own diary is one book I would have everyone in their life read as it serves as a great form of documentation of a person’s life journey of how they have changed while also taking pride in the person they have turned into now because of all the experiences one has been through.
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