About

  • Invested in making the world a better place through tech, and increasing access to tech and tech adjacent opportunities for all. Always working towards expanding my own skills and personal interests.
  • Email: karolina.groszewska[at]gmail.com

Professional Interests

  • Accessibility
  • Mobile Applications
  • Wearable Technologies
  • Equity & Inclusion

    • Personal Interests

  • Fitness
  • Board Games
  • Throwing Pottery
  • Knitting

    • Work Experience

    Apple

    Watch Automation Engineering Intern

    May 2023 – August 2023

    • Worked with Activity, Workout and Fitness+ features, enhancing test automation capabilities on iOS, watchOS and tvOS
    • Triaged incoming bugs by analyzing logs, reproducing issues, and determining correct resolvers, helping identify emerging trends
    • Analyzed build and test failures, working extensively with developers to ensure stable and bug-free releases

    Major League Hacking

    Coach and Streamer

    January 2023 – Present

    • Travel to hackathons nationwide as an event representative, helping lead various high school and collegiate hackathons to success. Hackathon responsibilities include managing event logistics, running technical and mini-events, presenting at ceremonies, mentoring participants, and supporting event organizers.
    • Served as technical workshop and mini-event streamer, focusing on teaching introductory concepts in Mobile App Development and Design, improving accessibility and equity in technology, and making the tech space more accessible and friendly for all.
    • Selected as one of the MLH Top 50 Hackers in 2023, for outstanding contributions to the MLH and broader hackathon community as a Coach and hackathon Organizer

    Vanguard Group

    Application Development Intern

    June 2022 – August 2022

    • Summer 2022 Intern at Vanguard working on Team Advice is Right (AiR), modernizing application interfaces for advisor use through updates and improvements to the Member Info Webservice and Goals and Accounts Web Application.
    • Scrum leader and front-end React.js developer for the intern project, creating and designing an application with the Spotify API allowing Vanguard crew to find co-workers in the office with similar music tastes.

    Vanderbilt University

    Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

    August 2021 – December 2022

    • Graded students’ exams and weekly homeworks, held twice-weekly office hours, answered questions on online teaching forum, and aided with classroom instructions for 180 students across 3 classroom sections of EECE 2123: Digital Systems.

    Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University

    Undergraduate Research Assistant

    August 2021 – May 2022

    • Research team member working on application interface using Ionic React for the frontend and MongoDB for the backend to help local community safety efforts by creating a dashboard and database for lost pets and license plate detection.
    • Met weekly with team and implemented features such as an overhauled login, corresponding iOS and Android applications, and an active website presence including PIs and research assistants to help Nashville outreach.

    Normandy Remodeling

    Software Engineering Intern

    August 2021 – May 2022

    • Re-vamped document upload process for live construction site updates using Visual Basic Scripts and Sharepoint, simplifying access to all jobs completed by the company.
    • Converted Microsoft Access databases of 30,000 building codes for 250 municipalities written in SQL to Microsoft Powerapps using Power Automate, simplifying access for all company members.
    • Automated COVID-19 check-in protocols for active construction site and office entries, covering 5,000 office entries and 7,500 construction entries.

    Leadership

    VandyHacks

    Senior Advisor, Marketing Committee Member
    • Mentors all organizers through their efforts of expanding and improving VandyHacks offerings, focusing on developing new tools and resources, expanding workshops in the mobile development space, and managing administrative contacts.
    • Manages all VandyHacks social media – coordinating posts, creating member features, and managing hackathon relations.
    President
    • Built a collaborative and inclusive CS community through a mentorship program, year-round workshops, and an inter-collegiate hackathon with over 1000 attendees. Served as the leader of a team of 50 across 7 committees.
    • Worked as a technical mentor to a pod of 7 first and second-year students during bi-weekly meetings, and helped oversee the creation of a full-stack workshop and a set of 6 pods with a group of talented executive board members
    Director of Hacker Experience
    • Organized and planned external events for one of the largest hackathons in the South by leading a team of 6 individuals and working alongside other members of the Executive Board. Managed expenses for internal and external affairs, which included all prizes, merchandise, decorations, and others while also working on a redesigned judging protocol during the first hybrid event

    Women in Computing

    Grace Hopper Coordinator & VP of Programming
    • Provided 21 all-expenses-paid scholarships for talented women and non-binary individuals to attend the world's largest diversity tech conference in Orlando, FL and virtually
    • Strategically planned and executed the scholarship program, facilitating access to invaluable networking and learning opportunities for aspiring technologists before, during and after the conference
    • Forged meaningful connections with student, alumni, and faculty contacts to gather essential resources and support the program's success for 2023 and beyond

    Studio V

    Treasurer
    • Manages budget and financing for a student organization of over 600 members. Led efforts of developing new event management system, now available on the App Store.

    Projects

    Studio V

    Clothing AI

    Sleepy Time

    Soba

    SAC

    Brewed Awakening