Riya Aggarwal
Product Designer at Cognex Corporation
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRiya Aggarwal is a product designer at Cognex with a decade of experience blending engineering, human-centered design, and education to ship meaningful products and learning experiences. An Olin College graduate, she has managed 40+ projects spanning hardware, software, curriculum development, and community programs, and has taught STEM workshops to learners of all ages for seven years. Her background includes product management and leadership development at Cognex, research on engineering education, and hands-on skills in Python, SolidWorks, Figma, and UX research. She’s a seasoned public speaker and mentor—once keynote speaker at Learn Fest—and has led student-run organizations to grow real-world skills for young innovators. Known for making technical tools accessible (from client-facing Google Scripts to easy-to-edit websites), she combines practical engineering chops with a knack for pedagogy and community building.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Engineering with a concentration in Human-Centered Design, Bachelor of Science - BS, Engineering with a concentration in Human-Centered Design at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringMulti-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General, Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General at Westlake High School
English, Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
team-project10
meta-analysis9
agent-based-modeling8
power-systems8
grammar7
scheduler2
scheduling1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Riya-1/py_grama
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
Implementation of a grammar of model analysis
Contributions:44 PRs, 44 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
grammarmodel-analysis
ChapResearch/ARbattles
Jan 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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