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_data/awards.yml

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+- name: Winner of Appdynamics Hackathon 2022 in a team of five among 25 participating teams.
 - name: Department Rank 12 in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur.
-- name: Rank 175 in Amritapuri ACM ICPC Regionals (2019)
-- name: All India Rank 214 in IIT JEE Advance Examination
-- name: All India Rank 829 in IIT JEE Main Examination
+- name: Rank 175 in Amritapuri ACM ICPC Regionals (2019) from among 1000 participating teams.
+- name: All India Rank 214 in IIT JEE Advance Examination among over 200k candidates
+- name: All India Rank 829 in IIT JEE Main Examination among over one million candidates.

_data/extracurricular.yml

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-- name: President at Codeclub, IIT Kharagpur (2020-2021).
+- name: President at Codeclub, IIT Kharagpur (2020-2021). Resonsible for organizing department meets, events, hackathons and bootcamps. Organized a two month long competitive programming hackathon to help student during covid pandemic. Attended by over 200 students.
 - name: Taught Introductory level Programming and Data structures to a class of first year students in collaboration with Student Welfare Society, IIT KGP (2018-2019).
 - name: Volunteer at National Service Scheme IIT Kharagpur (2017-2019), Awarded for being among the top contributing Volunteers.
 - name: Actor at Hindi Dramatics Society of IIT Kharagpur (2017-2019).

_data/news.yml

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+- date: 25 August, 2023
+  headline: "Starting my journey as MS CS student at Columbia University"
+
 - date: 14 October, 2022
   headline: "Won Appdynamics 2022 Hackathon"
 

_data/pi.yml

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   linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/divyang-mittal-95a334170/
   cv: cv/cv.pdf
   number_educ: 3
-  education1: (2021-) Software Engineer at Appdynamics
-  education2: (2021) B.Tech(Hons.), Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
-  education3: (2020) Software Engineer Intern at Appdynamics
-  education1short: (2021-) SWE at Appdynamics
-  education2short: (2021) B.Tech, CSE at IIT Kharagpur
-  education3short: (2020) SWE Intern at Appdynamics
+
+  education1: (2023-) Master of Science in Computer Science at Columbia University, New York
+  education2: (2021-2023) Software Engineer at Appdynamics
+  education3: (2021) B.Tech(Hons.), Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
+  education4: (2020) Software Engineer Intern at Appdynamics
+  education1short: (2023-) MS, CS at Columbia University
+  education2short: (2021-2023) SWE at Appdynamics
+  education3short: (2021) B.Tech, CSE at IIT Kharagpur
+  education4short: (2020) SWE Intern at Appdynamics

_pages/about.md

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 <div class="jumbotron">
 ### About Me
 <ul>
- I work as a Software Engineer in the data platform team at AppDynamics. I design and develop microservices that handle millions of packets every second.
-My contributions include creating a library used company-wide to create SLI for microservices.
+I am currently a Master of Science in Computer Science student at <a href="https://www.columbia.edu/" target="_blank">Columbia University</a>, pursuing the software systems track. I have worked as a Software Developer in the Data Platform team at <a href="https://www.appdynamics.com/" target="_blank">Cisco AppDynamics</a> for two years. I worked as a backend developer where I took charge of end-to-end development of features, ranging from design, development to deployment. I worked with microservices that handle millions of packets every second.
 I completed my Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering from <a href="http://iitkgp.ac.in/" target="_blank">Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur</a>.
-My research interest lies in computer systems, and I wish to pursue a career as an industrial researcher.
 </ul>
 </div>
 

_pages/home.md

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 ### About me
 
-I work as a Software Engineer in the data platform team at AppDynamics. I design and develop microservices that handle millions of packets every second.
-My contributions include creating a library used company-wide to create SLI for microservices.
+I am currently a Master of Science in Computer Science student at Columbia University, pursuing the software systems track. I have worked as a Software Developer in the Data Platform team at Cisco AppDynamics for two years. I worked as a backend developer where I took charge of end-to-end development of features, ranging from design, development to deployment. I worked with microservices that handle millions of packets every second.
+My contributions include developing a two-level cache system for our services; creating a library used company-wide to create SLI for microservices; Remodeling the API calls and adding support for pagination and resiliency against multiple call failures. I worked with JAVA, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Micronaut, Prometheus, FluentBit, AWS, etc.
 I completed my Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering from <a href="http://iitkgp.ac.in/" target="_blank">Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur</a>.
-My research interest lies in computer systems, and I wish to pursue a career as an industrial researcher.