Ishita Sharma

Ishita Sharma is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at NSRI, where she serves as the sole technical lead responsible for architecting and building the full-stack web platform from the ground up. Her work spans multi-role authentication systems, researcher and Qualified Researcher portals, research group management, applicant review workflows, weekly log tracking, automated email pipelines, and a real-time admin dashboard supporting NSRI’s public and internal research operations.

She engineered the core database infrastructure using Supabase, including row-level security policies, database triggers, and schema migrations, and maintains production deployments on Vercel with CI/CD via GitHub. Beyond the platform, Ishita focuses on the people using it. She knows what it's like to be shut out of research programs, so she works to make sure every student who comes to NSRI finds a real way in, whether through the tools researchers rely on every day or the Discord community. Her vision is a platform that removes every technical barrier between a student and their first serious research experience.