Nishka Dasgupta
Academic Employee at Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
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Top SchoolNishka Dasgupta is an academic software engineer with 9 years of experience specializing in data science and software security, currently working at the Danish Meteorological Institute. She combines strong systems-level skills in C/C++ and Rust with data tooling in Python, Java and SQL, and routinely adopts new languages rapidly—often within a month. Her research background spans secure multiparty computation, quantum-safe key distribution, and lightweight cryptography, underpinned by internships and fellowships at Microsoft Research India, TIFR, NTU and Cryptomathic. She has teaching experience in database systems and introductory programming, reflecting an ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly. Notably, she has a track record of practical kernel work (Outreachy) and production-oriented CI/CD development, bridging academic research and deployable security solutions.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Aarhus UniversityDiploma in Advanced Studies and Research, Computer Science, Diploma in Advanced Studies and Research, Computer Science at Ashoka UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at La Martiniere School for Girls, Kolkata
English, Bengali, Hindi, Danish
Github Skills (34)
mpc10
privacy-enhancing-technologies9
multi-party-computation9
confidential-computing8
secure-computation8
computation8
qdk7
jekyll7
formatting7
cryptography7
jekyll-theme7
quantum-computing6
liquid6
windows6
linux6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
NishkaDG/nishkadg.github.io
May 2019 - Mar 2025
lightweight jekyll blog theme
Contributions:77 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 10 months
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NishkaDG/CS205
Aug 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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