by Lindsey Amen | University Communication
May 8, 2020
As a child, Omaha native Gauri Ramesh loved writing stories for her friends and family to read.
She wanted to find a way to make her stories more accessible, so she created her own website — complete with comment sections, music and more.
The experience served as a jumping off point for Ramesh’s passion for computer science, and she hasn’t looked back since.
“Being able to put all those pieces together really sparked my interest in computer science,” Ramesh said. “I took my first coding class my senior year of high school, and I ended up really liking the freedom that I had being able learn a new programming language and make anything show up on the screen.”
Ramesh, a senior computer science major at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management, will have a lot to look forward to after graduating on May 9. In August, she will begin a full-time position as a software engineer at Microsoft in Seattle. She sees the job as a culmination of her experiences at the university over the past four years.
“Graduating from Nebraska means I have the tools, the skills and the connections that I need to start my career in technology,” Ramesh said. “The faculty, staff and students provided me a support and foundation I couldn’t have gotten anywhere else, and I know I’ll be proud to be a Husker anywhere I go.”
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