Shreya Riya Iyer

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Senior Embedded Engineer at Bain & Company · ARM Cortex-M, C

Bain & Company
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
9+ years experience
Penn State
English
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Overview

9 years in software engineering, the last 1 at Bain & Company, where I work on the firmware team. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 28 minutes to under 5. Before that: Boston Consulting Group and IBM. Most at home with embedded Linux and C. I read too many books about cities.

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consensusembedded Linuxhardware bring-upCARM Cortex-M
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Office hours for new engineering managers: embedded systems and consensus

Topics
embedded systems, embedded Linux, ARM Cortex-M
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Engineers moving into leadership

9 years of embedded systems. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

New York, NYhardware bring-upcarm cortex-m
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Experience

  1. Senior Embedded Engineer
    Mar 2026 - Present
    Bain & Company · 7 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 414ms to 113ms.
    • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
  2. Embedded Engineer
    Nov 2023 - Mar 2026
    Boston Consulting Group · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Shipped 30 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
  3. Embedded Engineer
    Jun 2021 - Nov 2023
    IBM · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 14 minutes to under 6.
  4. Embedded Engineer
    Apr 2019 - Jun 2021
    Reddit · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 686ms to 81ms.
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 19% in two quarters.
  5. Embedded Engineer
    Dec 2017 - Apr 2019
    Spotify · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Shipped 26 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 29 minutes to under 4.

Projects

Open-source embedded Linux toolkit
2024

A small library for embedded systems that 539 developers star on GitHub.

Side project: a budgeting app
2022

Built with C and hardware bring-up. 272 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. Penn State
    BS, Electrical Engineering
    2013 - 2017

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