# Riva Madan

> Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems

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

Only interested in part time frontend, design system or UX engineering roles.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Vanta
Jan 2023 – Present
Design systems frontend engineer

### Senior Frontend Engineer @ Proper
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023

### Senior Software Engineer @ Impira
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
- Primarily a frontend developer (React/Typescript), working closely with our product manager and designer
- Developed a UI where users could train custom machine learning models, without code, on their own
documents with only a few samples
- Built up our UI component library and fixed it’s inconsistencies with our design library
- Identified user pain points and suggested possible solutions through user testing, A/B testing, metrics,
and watching user session videos
- Built self-serve billing using Stripe and Orb on the frontend and backend (Go and Python)
- Built up our testing environment (Testcafe) and integrated it into the CI/CD
- In charge of our own feature estimates and scoping
- Worked on multiple iterations of user onboarding

### Associate Frontend Engineering Manager @ IBM Aspera
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Emeryville, California, United States
- Advocated for and worked with management to create a dedicated frontend team to work more easily across IBM Aspera products
- Manager of 4 frontend developers
- Develop on new React frontends that use IBM Carbon Design System for two products, Faspex and CP4i
- Continue to maintain and add features to IBM Aspera on Cloud
- Responsible for sprint (3 week) and quarterly planning for all products based on upper management priorities
- Identify and resolve blockers with backend and design
- Architect APIs with backend engineers
- Help designs stay consistent by helping design team develop design patterns and ensure they are followed

### Senior/Lead Frontend Engineer @ IBM Aspera
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Emeryville, California, United States
- Over a three month period, co-lead the rewrite of Aspera Files (AngularJS) into IBM Aspera on Cloud (Angular) for both a better UX experience and better code quality, reusability and maintainability
- Implemented a library, Aspera Core, that contained reusable components and handled common functionality such as styling and authentication
- Implement several feature requests within two week sprints
- Fix critical bugs that affect customer workflows on short notice
- Work closely with UX and VD team
- Mentor and manage tasks for junior frontend developers

### Software Engineer @ IBM Aspera
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Emeryville, California
- One of two frontend web developers for our first SaaS web application, Aspera Files (AngularJS), Aspera's fastest growing product in terms of features and customer base
- Simultaneously worked full stack on several other Rails products, including legacy products
- Sole developer on a Java program to transfer data from Aspera transfer servers and Aspera Files’ MySQL database into Elasticsearch
- Promoted from intern to full time in one week

### Research Assistant in Will Lab @ UC Berkeley
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Berkeley, CA
Developed a more complete Carabidae species checklist for Nevada:
• Digitized carabid beetles from the Essig Museum and unprepared specimens from the Will Lab
• Collected specimens in the field from Great Basin National Park and Queen Canyon, NV
• Checked other institutions carabids records for new Nevada species
• Wrote scripts in Python to extract data from specimen and species lists

### REU Field Technician @ University of Colorado Boulder
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Mountain Research Station
• Researched willow shrub expansion in the alpine tundra, which involved  experiments on species composition and growth changes from global change factors
• Field work included species identification of alpine tundra forbs and graminoids, experiment setup, biomass harvest

### Research Assistant in Suding Lab @ UC Berkeley
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center
• Assisted with field and lab research on invasive species thresholds dynamics in California grasslands
• Lab and field work includes, but not limited to: weighing, counting, and sorting samples, plant identification, biomass harvest, transect sampling

### UC Berkeley Forestry Camp @ University of California, Berkeley, College of Natural Resources
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Meadow Valley, CA
• Field work including, but not limited to: Sierra Nevada tree, forbs and shrub identification and sampling, DBH (D-tape and Biltmore stick), variable radius plots, fixed area plots, clinometer, compass use and pacing


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Environmental Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22