Aashna Shroff

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founded Girls Code Camp empowering 1200 young women.
Developed innovative educational tools for schools in India and Brazil.
Led online course and community initiatives at Better by Design.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2B EdTech innovator focused on leveraging technology for educational solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningSoftware DevelopmentTeachingLeadership

Other Skills

Natural Language ProcessingComputer SciencePythonProgrammingData AnalysisFundraisingCurriculum DevelopmentResearchLearning Design

About

I’m a former software engineer interested in applying tech to solve large problems. I got into education by chance and stayed in it because I found large problems to be solved and a strong sense of fulfillment that came from working on it. In 2013-17 (undergrad), started Girls Code Camp to introduce coding to 1200 young women in India. In 2017-18 (masters), built ‘domino’, a free mobile platform for computational tinkering for kids that turns your phone into an arduino that was implemented in schools in India and Brazil. In 2018-21, worked as chief-of-staff for Better by Design and launched their online courses, education games, and online community for kids I spent the past year exploring b2b edtech talking to 100s of school leaders during COVID: built a in-class differentiated learning product and a homework solution; more recently exploring a community-platform for learning to re-design how schools / colleges run and manage their online communities.

Experience

Toddle - your teaching partner

Toddle AI - Product Lead

Feb 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Antler

Founder in Residence

Jul 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Better by design

Founders' Office

Oct 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Better by Design is an early-stage ed-tech startup that builds courses and educational products to help children develop creative problem-solving skills. As a part of the founders office, helped run tests with early adopters, built an MVP to run courses, products and an online community platform for students, and helped scale up the program from 2 to 40 schools.

Acumen

Learning Designer

Jul 2018 – Oct 2018 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Worked with the +Acumen team, on online school that reaches social change-makers tackling poverty across the world. Ran and design their cohort-based courses on impact investing and personal finance, designing and running curriculum, learning experience across platforms and managed partnerships with companies, universities and content creators.

Various

Side Projects

Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 · 3 yrs

Code / projects developed solo or with teammates, mostly spanning Ed-tech and ML/ AI. Videos attached.
1. domino: Create mobile apps by making your phones' sensors and apps to talk to each other
2. Reading chatbot: AI-powered tutor chatbot that comprehends texts and answers questions in realtime
3. Hands-on Math: Draw curves (like parabolas, ellipses) using gestures and retrieve correlated mathematical formulas
4. Breathe India tracker: Digital COVID war-room for realtime analytics for O2 supplies and ICUs

Machine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSoftware DevelopmentComputer SciencePythonProgramming

Stanford university graduate school of education

Researcher, Transformative Learning Technologies Lab

Sep 2017 – May 2018 · 8 mos · Sobral, Ceará, Brazil

Co-designed makerspaces for schools in Brazil, facilitated professional development workshops for teachers to inculcate project-based, constructionist pedagogy in their classrooms.

Neighborly

Software Engineer

Jul 2017 – Sep 2017 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Neighborly is a fintech startup that citizens to directly fund and earn from community projects by investing in municipal bonds. Worked with Data Science team to build and analyze new models for public finance datasets. Developed an ArcGIS app to provide market-specific information to the business team.

The clayman institute for gender research at stanford university

Research Assistant

Mar 2016 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr · Stanford, CA

TeachingLeadershipFundraising

Girls code camp

Founder

Dec 2014 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos · India

Founded Girls Code Camp to empower young women in India to enter technological fields. Designed and taught computer science workshops for over 1200 middle and high school girls in India. Lead fundraising for $100k, partnerships with Microsoft, Wells Fargo and Dr. Reddy's foundation, designed marketing campaigns that were featured in The Atlantic, Times of India and Stanford News.