Ria P. Email & Phone Number

Skokie, IL, US

• Managed over 80+ members of the Startup Exchange team (including 18 directors)
• Worked alongside the Executive Directors in organization-wide discussions
• Created onboarding and offboarding experiences (ex. Retreat, Exit Survey, Recruitment Processes, Handbook)
• Established a proposal initiative process that successfully assessed the bandwidth of the organization and the alignment to the SX vision used by 4+ people
• Led an incredible team of 8 new members which were divided into 3 subdivisions (Internal Community, Culture, and Process Management)
• Initiated feedback cycles to iteratively improve the workstream of 14 divisions

• Designed an online community with now over 1000+ students
• Pioneered ShipIt Sunday, a serial community event where any builder can work on their project or idea while having access to industry mentors onsite.
• Managed a team of 4 driven members and led weekly standup meetings
• Coordinated entrepreneurship events (ex. Waffles & Whiteboarding w/ Contrary Capital, Founder's Fridays)

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Spearheaded a new program of Startup Exchange: Membership
• Fostered a community for current founders, former founders, entrepreneurship-oriented people, and former Fellowship (Startup Exchange Accelerator Program) members
• Facilitated and established a new communication system: Discord with 705+ active members

• Tailored 7+ workshops for beginners to learn about React, data visualization techniques, D3.js, how to connect frontend to backend data, data manipulation, intro to Flask, and more.
• Delivered to over 50 students, encompassing different learning styles with a presentation and a live demo
• Partnered with GT Extended Reality organization to host a virtual reality x data visualization workshop

Evanston, Illinois, United States

• Prototyped and implemented a 6-layered dashboard and a data writeback tool powered by Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate for business to assess data quality and make changes to dynamic big data in healthcare.
• Performed 30+ advanced data analysis from a data lakehouse using Python, SQL, Hive, and Trino to derive actionable insights
• Transformed an unstructured problem statement to a client-invested scalable technical project for a leading pharmaceutical company
• Designed 2 detailed data flows for a complex wide data table with 12 processing layers coming from 5 sources, being used in 8 downstream teams
• Implemented a code segment using Spark SQL for a table used in a data processing layer
• Enhanced the weekly status report deck template for clients

• Used React Native, Node.js, AWS Services, Postman to develop an internal application for 70+ employees to promote professional development
• Represented my project team at weekly company-wide demos about progress and findings from the development team
• Fixed a broken CI/CD pipeline on BitRise and GitHub Actions to effectively distribute and deploy the project to people using 3 environments
• Translated the development process of TribalConnect into non-technical terms for stakeholders to improve clarity on expectations and provide insight into technical progress
• Published technical blogs about how to transform an application to be intelligent with Machine Learning models categorized by use case and mobile push notifications with OneSignal
• Pair programmed with my development team and followed XP practices during project sprints

• Designed, programmed, and maintained the company's website: www.nexidea.io.
• Designed the one-pager, slide deck, event marketing materials, and invoices using Figma and Canva
• Managed LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and Luma by constructing our brand from scratch using graphic design and marketing strategies
• Researched 15+ potential clients/investors for meetings

Working alongside my physics teacher Ms. Lietz, I assembled physics labs for students. I also organized the classroom by doing inventory and arranging class materials optimally for the teacher and students if needed.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Startup Exchange, Big Data Big Impact, GT iOS Club, Women at College of ComputingFaculty Honors

High School Diploma, Senior

Activities and Societies: Girls Who Code (President), South Asian Student Association Club (President), Computer Science Honor Society.

Education record

In a 4-week course, I learned the basics of offensive and defensive hacking using virtual operating systems, Wireshark, Linux, Windows.