Sita Robinson — Software Developer

To Whom It May Concern:
Sita Robinson served ELAP Services as a Data Science Intern from September 2018 through March 2019. Done in collaboration with Drexel University's Co-op program, the Data Science Internship is part of ELAP's ongoing commitment to strengthen our ties with the Philadelphia business community and to contribute to the development of talent. Sita contributed to our organization's success through her work on several key initiatives involving predictive analytics and reference-based pricing for healthcare claims. In her first week at ELAP, she wrote a script using the Python programming language to automate an important data cleaning task and eliminate a major bottleneck in our data load process. She went on to write complex database queries in the SQL language to feed several predictive models. In particular, her work was key to moving forward on a second- generation customer renewal prediction model. This work required her to gain a significant level of proficiency with database programming and to understand ELAP's business processes in order to interpret and manipulate our data effectively. Finally, Sita used the R statistical programming language to automate the process of building and deploying machine learning models in our database environment. This helped us to move forward with the design and execution of an entirely new framework for advanced analytics at our organization. Sita shared her knowledge with the company by participating in biweekly Analytics Council meetings and Machine Learning Workshops. She also took the initiative to create and deliver a presentation on machine learning from the data scientist's perspective. Sita is a very talented student with strong technical skills and an admirable eagerness to learn and contribute. She demonstrated outstanding communication and leadership characteristics, and we very much enjoyed having her on the team. We thank her for her contributions to ELAP's success.

I had the pleasure of having Sita join my Engineering team as a software development engineer for a ten week internship at Comcast in the summer of 2017. Sita's performance during this ten week period exceeded my expectations. Although Sita did not have any experience with PHP and Ruby on Rails programming languages, she was able to learn these languages in a very short period of time and contribute to our software development projects. I was impressed with her ability to work independently figuring things out on her own, develop features, fix bugs, and integrate with our team practices performing pull requests and releasing software with our lead software engineer. Sita is a hard worker and team player and I truly enjoyed having her on my team. I look forward to Sita having success in the future as a software development engineer as she will be a great asset to any company and team. I highly recommend Sita Robinson and would certainly hire her upon graduating from college.