Short Biography
I am currently serving as a research associate at University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) within the Institute for Interactive Technologies.
I earned my Ph.D. from the University of Bern. Between 2018 and 2022, I was a member of the Software Composition Group led by Prof. Oscar Nierstrasz. My work primarily focuses on requirements engineering, with a strong interest in UX, digital sustainability, and improving agile way of development.
Education
Ph.D.
University of Bern, Switzerland
March 2018-March 2022
Research topics: requirements engineering, domain modelling, collaborative development
M.Sc.
University of Paderborn, Germany
March 2014-February 2018
Focus point: Information and database systems
B.E.
University of Mumbai, India
2009-2012
Professional experience
University of Applied Sciences and Arts North-western Switzerland (FHNW), as a Research associate
March 2022-Present
- Co-Teaching Requirements Engineering course at bachelor’s level.
- Co-teaching for the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit
- Teaching as an Agile Coach for semester 3 and 4 students for a yearlong industry project.
- Teaching as an Team Coach for semester 1 and 1 students for a yearlong internal project focused on RUP.
- Proposing and supervising bachelor thesis and guiding students through the whole process of problem identification and proposing and validating a solution.
- Managing several projects with our industry partners.
- Preparing project proposals to acquire funding.
University of Bern, as a Research assistant
February 2018-February 2022
- Supervising several bachelor and master thesis and guiding students through the whole process of problem identification and proposing and validating a solution.
- Worked as a tutor and successfully conducted a semester long software engineering project for four consecutive years. Each year, about 50-60 students were guided into the process of identifying and specifying requirements, making prototypes, implementation and testing.
- Worked as an independent instructor for the Seminar in Software Engineering (BSc/MSc). This course explored the research landscape of the software engineering field, and state-of-the- art tools and techniques in it to develop the prototypical tools and techniques for various topics.
ActiDo GmbH, Paderborn, as a Web developer
2017-2018
- Built a proof-of-concept for a web application using React.
- Main tasks involved implementing provided designs into HTML, CSS and writing frontend logic with React.
University of Paderborn, as a Research assistant
2016-2018
- Worked with clients at Volksbank and university sports department to understand their requirements for a sports application.
- Developed a single page application using Angular and Django Rest framework as a proof of concept for the employees at Volkbank.
Infosys Ltd., India, as a Systems Engineer
2012-2014
- Was a part of a team that worked on product lifecycle management (PLM) platforms, e.g., Windchill.
- Worked on building a web application for a US-based client “Cox communications.”
