Sagar Shetty

Sagar Shetty has a diverse work experience. Sagar began their career in 2016 as a Research Assistant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, where they led a project to analyze the effect of vessel diameter on nanodroplet activation pressure thresholds. Sagar also operated a Verasonics with MATLAB to create b-mode and ultrasound-contrast images, and designed an acrylic box to mount different-sized cellulose tubes using SolidWorks, CorelDraw, and a laser-cutter. In 2017, Shetty worked as a Learning Assistant at the UNC Department of Computer Science, where they led office hours and review sessions about analyzing data sets in Python for 200 students, and maintained and answered student questions on an online class forum. Sagar also worked as a Design Team Member at The Helping Hand Project, Inc., where they designed and manufactured a prosthetic hand using SolidWorks and 3D printers for a specific child, defined specifications and needs for the client using Pugh chart, and collaborated with Helping Hands club to communicate with the child's family. From 2018 to 2019, Shetty worked as a Software Engineering Intern at Fidelity Investments, where they developed a Python client in an Agile environment to connect Python applications to the company's main back-office workflow manager to help automate the manual processing of forms, created unit and integration tests, and assisted in using Jenkins to build a pipeline for the client to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery. Sagar also trained a machine learning model with 67,000 images using TensorFlow and Keras to classify different numbers and detect periods. Finally, from 2019 to 2022, Shetty worked as a Program Manager and then a Program Manager II at Microsoft, where they led customer research studies and A/B experiments around how to improve discoverability, usability, and documentation of tracepoints, a Visual Studio debugging feature, increased discoverability and understanding of Visual Studio profiling tools to tens of thousands of developers by making a YouTube series educating users on tool capabilities, and created a forecasting model using Excel and Python to set a division-wide key result on the goal for the number of monthly engaged Visual Studio users in fiscal year 2021. Shetty is currently a Product Manager at Sprinter Health.

Sagar Shetty attended Providence High School from 2011 to 2015. Sagar then went on to pursue a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical and Health Sciences Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 2019.