Dheekshita K
Advisor at GS Futures
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDheekshita K is an engineer-turned-founder and advisor with eight years of experience building AI-enabled products for public sector and community impact. She co-founded CivCheck, creating a guided AI plan review platform that accelerates permitting and educates reviewers, and now leads AI product strategy as CEO at Clariti while advising GS Futures. Her background spans hands-on engineering, program management, and research at MathWorks, MIT Energy Initiative, and energy startups, with deep expertise in ML for energy systems and production web stacks like Next.js, Flask, and GCP. She has a track record of scaling mission-driven projects—growing a non-profit edtech user base to 10k+ and managing large distributed teams and volunteer networks. Based in Cambridge, MA, she pairs technical depth (MEng/BS-level training from MIT) with operator instincts and a recurring focus on civic technology. An improv-savvy musician at heart, she brings creative perspective to technical problem-solving and stakeholder engagement.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High school Diploma, High school Diploma at Boston University AcademyMaster of Engineering - MEng, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Harvard Business SchoolFull Time Dual Enrollment in Highschool, Full Time Dual Enrollment in Highschool at Boston University
Tamil, English, French
Github Skills (20)
checkout6
particle4
nodejs4
windows4
hardware4
react4
wsl23
nextjs2
machine-learning2
typescript2
machine-learning-algorithms2
css2
react-native2
javascript2
blueprint2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rk9109/dotfiles
Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
pypad-team/pypad
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
A distributed, peer-to-peer collaborative code editor
Contributions:3 PRs, 28 pushes, 8 branches in 6 months
distributedcollaborativepeer-to-peercode-editor
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