Khoury Bridge: Breaking In — 2025 IT Trends, Job-Ready Skills, and the Best Training Routes (virtual)
January 29 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Khoury seniors, if you’re on your last co-op and/or thinking ahead to life after graduation — and wondering what comes next — you’re not alone. Let Khoury Bridge, our career and postgrad planning series, help you navigate the steps to take to get “full-time ready.”
Join us for a conversation hosted by Vinod Surasani, senior software engineer at RBC Wealth Management. Vinod is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience delivering enterprise applications, data analytics, and AI/ML solutions across finance, health care, and technology. He serves as an industry advisor with Cornell Tech and guest speaker at Columbia State University, mentoring students on careers and emerging technologies.
This session will provide students with:
- A roadmap to navigate emerging IT trends (GenAI, lakehouse data stacks, zero-trust security)
- Job-ready skills and a 90-day learning plan
- A portfolio blueprint with three proof projects
- Training routes recruiters recognize (AWS/Azure/GCP, Databricks, Kubernetes, Security+)
- Practical checklists, outreach scripts, and strategies to turn projects into interviews
The event is virtual; you’ll receive an email reminder with the Zoom link before the event.