Sruti Modekurty
PHD Candidate
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolSruti Modekurty is a PhD candidate and interdisciplinary technologist with 11 years of experience applying software engineering, NLP/ML and computational social science to urban climate adaptation, civic tech and equitable city systems. She has led open-source platform work and engineering projects for organizations like OpenAQ and guided technical policy and smart city efforts at UNDP and ESIP. Comfortable both as a hands-on full-stack and systems engineer (including IoT and embedded work) and as a researcher, she combines field-facing product delivery with quantitative analysis of extreme-event adaptation. She mentors and builds community-focused programs—having co-founded initiatives to connect fellows with civic projects—and often translates technical capabilities into practical social impact. Based in Leipzig, her work uniquely bridges environmental science and software, using open data to make climate resilience more accessible and just.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Urban Climate and Sustainability, Master of Science - MS Urban Climate and Sustainability at LAB University of Applied SciencesMaster of Science - MS Urban Climate and Sustainability, Master of Science - MS Urban Climate and Sustainability at Glasgow Caledonian UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster of Science - MS Urban Climate and Sustainability, Master of Science - MS Urban Climate and Sustainability at Universidad de Huelva
English, Telugu, German
Github Skills (43)
api-platform9
corona9
api8
medicine8
slack-bot8
data-format7
computational-social-science6
sensor5
slack5
python5
json-api4
redoc4
flutter4
science4
fetch3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sruti/sruti.github.io
Feb 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
openaq/fetches-optimizer
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Optimize fetch results for more efficient aggregations
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 15 days
fetchaggregationsoptimizer
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