IIIT Jabalpur graduate Samruddhi Sharma now a software engineer at Google
Samruddhi Sharma, an electronics and communication engineering graduate of IIIT Jabalpur, reached Google through two internships and says no full career blueprint is needed.
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Every young person who wants a career in coding and technology dreams of a job at Google. Many also believe that a degree from a big institution such as an IIT or an IIM is a must to get in. The story of Google software engineer Samruddhi Sharma tells a different tale and is an inspiration to many.
Samruddhi Sharma studied electronics and communication engineering at IIIT Jabalpur. She did not plan everything in advance or follow a rigid plan. Her own hard work, decisions taken at the right time and a determination to keep learning took her to the world's biggest tech company, Google.
From her early days in college, she was drawn to solving technical problems and learning new things. On that strength, she secured her first internship in 2024 through Google's prestigious STEP (Student Training in Engineering Program).
In 2025, she completed a second software engineering internship at Google. During this period she worked on challenging projects such as automated data pipelines and real-time dashboards. The experience firmed up her technical knowledge and acquainted her with the finer points of the corporate world. After working in the fintech sector for some time, she joined Google's team as a full-time software engineer.
In college, Samruddhi was on the core team of BitByte, the programming club of IIIT Jabalpur. She organised several coding competitions, conducted workshops for junior students and played a major part in building a strong developer community on the campus. Working as both a leader and a team member prepared her to face the bigger challenges of the corporate world. She believes that teaching others and moving ahead with a team deepens one's understanding.
She also made her mark in hackathons. She won the well-known HackCBS 7.0 hackathon, where she built a scalable peer-to-peer resource-sharing platform. She has been a finalist of the Google Girl Hackathon and a scholar of the Google Women Techmakers Engineering Fellowship (WTEF). Her command of modern technologies such as Java, Python, C, React and the MERN stack set her apart from the crowd.
Many young people are stressed about where they will be in the next five to ten years. Samruddhi's outlook is different and practical. She holds that there is no need at all to prepare a blueprint of the whole career in advance. She says one should take just one step at a time, give one hundred per cent where one is at present, and trust that today's experiences will decide tomorrow's direction. She also says that, rather than fearing failure, learning from every experience is the greatest strength of a successful professional.
