# Riya Shrivastava

> Product Manager at Schmidt Futures

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

Interested in software engineering, product management, and computational astronomy. Passionate about climate tech and tech for social impact!

## Work Experience
### Product Manager @ Schmidt Futures
Jan 2024 – Present
The Technologists for Global Transformation program (formerly the Associate Product Manager program) develops and deploys an exceptional network of early career technologists to solve systemic global challenges for public benefit.

### Project Lead @ Engineers Without Borders USA
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
• Co-led development and engineering design of an improved water supply system in Tandacato, Ecuador for 2,100 residents
• Worked alongside the Ecuador country office (partnership between EWB-USA and the NGO Engineers in Action), Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and Stantec engineers on the project

### Caltech Engineers Without Borders Co-President @ Engineers Without Borders USA
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
• Led a team of students in implementing engineering solutions to serve the needs of international communities
• Spearheaded fundraising and outreach efforts, serving as a liaison between EWB-Caltech, EWB-USA and partner communities

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Azure Core Storage

### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Completed a full stack project for AWS Supply Chain as part of the New Products, Business Applications team.

### Intern @ SCOUT
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Conducted market research and contributed to the research and development of a computer vision-based star tracker for spacecraft navigation.

### Undergraduate Research Fellow @ Observatories of The Carnegie Institution for Science
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Studied the effects of stellar collisions and metallicity on the formation of pair instability supernovae and massive black holes. Supported by the Carnegie Astrophysics Summer Student Internship (CASSI) and Caltech SURF programs.

Mentor: Kyle Kremer

### Deck Manager @ Saratoga Star Aquatics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Promoted to youngest deck manager within first year of joining team. Managed multiple swim classes from pool deck, streamlined weekly schedules. Assessed student abilities and communicated feedback to instructors, students, and parents.

### Swim Instructor @ Saratoga Star Aquatics
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Instructed all ages and levels, engaged swimmers in lessons, tracked their progress.

### Research Intern @ University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Worked in a research group to design and develop an algorithm using Python data libraries to identify variable stars (RR Lyrae, Cepheids) in the Andromeda Galaxy, through statistical analysis of the largely unexplored time-domain data from the PHAT survey.

Mentors: Sagnick Mukherjee, Raja GuhaThakurta

### California State Summer School for Mathematics & Science (COSMOS) @ University of California, Davis
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
Cluster 4: Introduction to Astrophysics 

Leveraged Python libraries (NumPy, Astropy) and AstroImageJ to process and analyze spectral images of a star to determine characteristics including stellar classification, temperature, and age.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science, Astrophysics (Minor)
Caltech

### Michaelmas Term Study Abroad at St. Catharine's College in Computer Science Tripos Part II and III
University of Cambridge

### Lynbrook High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29