Aashima Talwar joined Gaia GPS as a software engineering intern this summer.
Her main project has been to revise, update, and improve the style of the Gaia Vector Topo Map. This has bridged a wide variety of skills, including writing CartoCSS, working with Postgres, working with Git, and more. Aashima has also spent time learning more about writing Javascript, and developing websites.
Aashima earned her Masters degree in IT from India. She previously worked at Microsoft (Redmond) and AtosOrigin (Singapore) doing mainly database development and provided business intelligence solutions.
She lives in Seattle with her husband and daughter.