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Ishan Srivastava
FounderSan Diego, California

IshanSrivastava

Founder & CEO, Matrioshka Brain. Software engineer AWS Bedrock; before Amazon One, Google Summer of Code and Speaker @ PyCon India.

AlumniArizona State UniversityIIT Dharwad

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I’m a tech founder. I founded Matrioshka Brain and all of its products.

Today that’s Day1CPT.ai, USTalentVisa.ai, USF1Visa.ai and USVisaSuite.ai, with USH1BVisa.ai coming soon.

At Amazon I’ve done backend engineering on Amazon Bedrock and helped launch the Amazon One mobile apps. Before that I came up through open source: Google Summer of Code 2018 with coala, mentoring at Google Code-in and speaker @ PyCon India.

Field noteOutside of engineeringPickleball · Latin dance

Pickleball

I play pickleball regularly.

Latin dance

I have professional Latin dancing experience: I performed at the Las Vegas Salsa Super Congress 2026 with Melómano San Diego Dance Company.

Timeline

23 entries · 2026 → 2013
  1. Performer, Las Vegas Salsa Super Congress

    Melómano San Diego Dance Company · Las Vegas

    Performed on the Congress stage with Melómano San Diego Dance Company.

  2. Software Development Engineer II

    Amazon · AWS Bedrock · San Diego

    Backend developer on Amazon Bedrock, the industry-grade service for generative AI applications on the cloud. Working on the queuing engine for AWS Bedrock to absorb high TPS workloads of AWS Bedrock and distributing capacity across GPUs scattered over multiple regions.

    • Rust
    • AWS
    • Distributed systems
    • GPU capacity
  3. Software Development Engineer

    Amazon · Amazon One · San Diego

    Full-stack engineer on the team that launched the Android and iOS apps for Amazon One from the ground up — add a credit card, associate it with your palm, and pay at the store without your phone.

    Built palm-based age verification so customers can buy drinks and verify their age without a wallet, ID or phone on them, plus several website features.

    • Android
    • iOS
    • Full stack
  4. Research Aide

    Arizona State University · Tempe, Arizona

    Research under Prof. Seager in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment.

    For the U.S. Navy: GIS, geospatial data and machine learning to predict power-outage risk by simulating weather, disaster and socio-economic conditions across Arizona. For the U.S. military: profiling Visual Basic macros.

    • Machine learning
    • GIS
    • Geospatial
  5. NSTI Engineering Mentor

    Arizona State University · Tempe, Arizona

    Engineering mentor for the National Summer Transportation Institute workshop at ASU, mentoring students in robotics and programming.

    • Robotics
    • Mentoring
  6. MS, Computer Science

    Arizona State University · Tempe, Arizona

  7. A Beginner’s Guide to Linux Kernel Development (LFD103)

    The Linux Foundation

    Completed the Linux Foundation’s kernel development course on July 3, 2020.

  8. AI Engineer

    Digital Product School by UnternehmerTUM · Munich, Germany

    Worked on a team with SAP developers during COVID times to figure out what kind of digital products could best help small business owners in Bavaria — from validation and proof-of-concepts to AI product management.

    • AI products
    • Lean startup
    • Prototyping
  9. GitHub Campus Expert

    GitHub

    Trained by GitHub to build and grow the technical community on campus.

  10. Research Intern

    Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay · Mumbai

    Summer research with Prof. V. M. Gadre on higher-order time-frequency methods and their applications in RADAR.

    • Signal processing
    • RADAR
  11. Teaching Associate

    Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay · Mumbai

    Teaching associate for the TEQIP-III KITE Active Learning Workshops, a Ministry of Human Resource Development initiative assisted by the World Bank to improve India’s technical education system.

    • Teaching
    • Pedagogy
  12. B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering

    Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad · Dharwad, India

  13. Mentor, Google Code-in

    coala

    Mentored extraordinary students aged 13–17 through real-world projects with open source organisations.

  14. Speaker, PyCon India 2018

    “Metaclasses and decorators: a match made in space” · Hyderabad

    Selected to speak at India’s national annual Python conference.

  15. Decentralized Applications, Batch 2

    School of AI

    Certificate of completion, issued October 4, 2018 · certificate 12010117.

  16. Google Summer of Code Developer

    coala

    Enhanced coala-quickstart to automatically detect linting rules and produce project-compatible configuration files for coala.

    Researched linting rules used by repositories like CPython and Linux to adapt coala-quickstart to industry standards. Read so much Python documentation, applying it in real time, and delved deep into the intricacies of the language.

    • Python
    • Static analysis
    • Developer tools
  17. Software Engineering Intern

    Studd Startup Solutions · Mumbai

    Backend Django developer, selected as one of 4 out of 200 applicants at E-Summit 2018, IIT Bombay — India’s largest business event.

    • Django
    • Backend
  18. Lean Startup Workshop

    E-Cell, IIT Bombay · E-Summit ’18

    Certificate of achievement from the Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay.

  19. Developer

    coala Association e.V. · Remote

    coala is a unified interface for static analysis, linting and fixing bugs in your code, irrespective of the underlying programming language. Member of the development team, contributing to coala and coala-quickstart and helping newcomers onboard the org.

  20. Student Mentor

    Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad · Dharwad, India

    Student Mentor in IIT Dharwad’s Student Mentorship Program for the 2017–18 academic year, mentoring the institute’s new students.

  21. IoT Workshop

    Robokart × E-Cell, IIT Bombay · IIIT Dharwad

    Certificate of participation from the national workshop series.

  22. High School, ICSE

    Seth M. R. Jaipuria School · Lucknow

    One of the city toppers in the ICSE national board examinations, with a perfect score in Computer Science. My result made the national news.

    ICSE overall
    95.2%
    Computer Science
    100