Sanjana Sudarshan, Ph.D., is currently a Principal Engineer - Software at Eli Lilly and Company, having transitioned from a role as a DevOps Engineer Consultant at Beam Data. Prior to this, Sanjana held various research and technical positions, including Senior Technical Advisor for Jetstream Cloud at Indiana University Bloomington and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Sanjana earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Texas Woman's University and has also worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Horticultural Research and a Graduate Research Assistant at Texas Woman's University.