# Rishma Murugan

> Software Engineer @ Scale AI | UC Berkeley M.E.T

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rishma

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Scale AI
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Mem Labs
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Developed production features by leveraging LLMs, including GPT-4 (OpenAI), employing prompt-engineering techniques, and iterating on user feedback
• Built several full-stack features using React and Typescript to enhance product adoption
• Integrated a new experimentation system and conducted experiments to boost user retention

### Software Engineer @ Clockwise
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Developed multiple web features that helped increase new user retention
• Utilized React, Redux, Typescript, and CSS to create onboarding features for new users
• Integrated frontend features with existing backend services using GraphQl and Relay

### Cofounder @ BlossomVR
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
• Created a VR app that used biofeedback to decrease user stress and launched on Oculus store 
• Analyzed heart rate data and user movement to create a responsive environment using Unity
• Determined product resulted in a 10% decrease in stress among 15 test users

### Virtual Reality Developer @ Extended Reality at Berkeley
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California
•	Created an interactive virtual reality application to aid individuals with anxiety through responsive biofeedback
•	Analyzed EEG data to create a responsive environment 
•	Developed the virtual reality environment using Unity and Oculus VR tools

### Software Engineer Intern @ Asana
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• Developed multiple full-stack production features to improve user retention in the Asana web app
• Used React, Typescript, and CSS to create and enhance frontend product features for the new user experience
• Used JavaScript to develop server-side portion of various user onboarding features
• Ran multiple A/B experiments to validate feature changes and further analyze user behavior

### Software Engineering Intern @ Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Burbank, California, United States
• Developed a full-stack production feature for games within the Disney NOW Android mobile application
• Built the frontend user interface using MotionLayout and MVVM app architecture frameworks
• Integrated feature with messages and callbacks from related third-party systems

### Software Engineering Intern @ ServiceTitan
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Glendale, California
• Developed a full-stack production system that enabled users to receive notifications in the ServiceTitan web platform
• Designed customer-facing user interface and implemented it using React and TypeScript
• Used EntityFramework to design and implement the backend of the web application on a SQL Server

### Research Intern @ Ubiquitous Computing Lab
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Seattle, Washington
•	Worked on a research project to reduce cybersickness in virtual reality
•	Created a prototype belt that mimicked motions in virtual reality through haptic feedback
•	Conducted extensive study to test efficiency of belt
•	Determined that the prototype belt had a positive impact on reducing cybersickness

### Marketing Lead @ CarPals
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Boston, Massachusetts
•	Created CarPals, a company developing a cross-platform carpooling application designed for parents. 
•	Designed and developed the CarPals website. 
•	Created extensive marketing campaigns to increase customer awareness.

### Android Development Intern @ Parllay
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Kirkland, Washington
•	Developed features for the Parllay Android application
•	Developed the EmotionsWheel, a feature which made it easier for users to comment and react to content
•	Created the Channels feature, which served as a content feed for users


## Education
### Dual Degree: BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in BS Business Administration, EECS
UC Berkeley Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program

### Redmond High School


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/rishma
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rishma/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-29