# Natasha Arya

> Engineering @ Duolingo 🦉 UC Berkeley alum

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/natashaarya

Always excited about building impactful products!
Feel free to reach out on natashaarya@berkeley.edu :)

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Duolingo
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States
Engineering subscriber acquisition & growth — powering the $$$ engine bringing free education to millions worldwide

### Course Facilitator @ Build the Future
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, CA
Course facilitator for “UGBA 198: How to Build the Future” where we dive into startups and host Silicon Valley founders (past speakers include founders of Stripe, Figma, Replit, Loom, Twitter, Retool). Fostering the builder community at Cal 🛠️

### Software Engineer @ Duolingo
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
Interned on the Learning R&D - Infrastructure team.

### Mentor; ex-Student Ambassador @ Technovation Challenge
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023
Mentoring and teams of middle- and high- school girls; providing the first introduction to tech and entrepreneurship through app development for social good

### Researcher @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Investigating evaluation methods for AI generated literature and music based on Eastern aesthetic philosophies

### Software Engineering Intern, Thrive @ Duolingo
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Full-stack engineering + hanging out with Duo and other talented folks!

### Co-Founder @ Sapne
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Online platform to help rural women groups sell products across India to regain livelihood during the pandemic. Handled tech, branding, shipping/payment logistics, and lots of support calls.

### President @ Exun Clan
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021
Led my high school’s CS club with 50+ students and organized the largest tech conference for students in India with 20+ competitions. Developed new initiatives like Girls in Tech, SpaceTech, and a speaker series. Won a lot of designathons/hackathons throughout the city over the years :)

### Member @ Aeross: Aerospace Society
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020
Worked on space-exploration and engineering projects and competitions at the national and international level. I worked in the Automations Engineering subteam to design blueprints for human and industrial settlements in space. 
Most notable: Won the International Space Settlement Design Competition 2018 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Music
University of California, Berkeley

### Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/natashaarya

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Last updated: 2026-04-05