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Sid Nigam '16 CEPS
DevOps Consultant, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services
Director, Alumni Association Board of Directors
Siddharth Nigam (Sid) is a DevOps Consultant at Amazon Web Services (AWS) working in Boston. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences with a bachelors in Honors Mechanical Engineering with a dual major in International Affairs and a minor in Applied Math.
At UNH, Sid was involved across several groups on campus. Some of his involvements were as the President of the Indian Subcontinent Students’ Association, founder and President of the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers. He also traveled to Peru, Costa Rica, and Scotland for engineering projects and to present at conferences. After UNH, he completed his masters at the University of Colorado Boulder and worked at Deloitte as a Cloud Engineering Consultant for 3 years before joining AWS.
He currently serves as the co-chair for the UNH Alumni Association Board of Directors – Co-chair, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Taskforce. Outside of work, he likes to cook (@always.in.a.curry on Instagram), play soccer, travel, and support Manchester United.
Meet our Panelists:
Shrimika (Mika) Madhavan '18 COLSA
Senior Research Associate at Atara Biotherapeutics | India/California
Shrimika (Mika) Madhavan currently works as a Senior Research Associate on the Process Science team at Atara Biotherapeutics. Her background includes drug discovery, drug production, and process development of CAR-T cell therapeutics used in solid tumor cancers. Mika graduated Cum Laude from COLSA with a bachelors in Honors Genetics and dual major in International Affairs with a minor in Biomedical Sciences from the University of New Hampshire in 2018. At UNH, Mika founded the International Student Organization and the iGEM Organization (a synthetic biology research based organization). She also did research abroad in Japan through the SURF grant and presented her research at multiple conferences. She received her Masters in Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in 2020. Mika loves to travel, snowboard, and dine her way through LAs dining scene.
Rilei Tong ‘16 PAUL
Senior Management Consultant at Deloitte | China
Rilei Tong graduated from UNH in 2016. Rilei spent two years in Navitas (an international study abroad program) to study his English after struggling to speak only a few words in English when he arrived. He then began classes at UNH as a marketing major learning useful skills that he still uses in his daily work. After graduating in 2016, Rilei returned to China where he joined a digital CRM solution company, Bertelsmann Arvato, serving clients such as BMW, Volvo, LVMH, and Nike. Thereafter, he worked for Capgemini, a consulting company, as a senior consultant. He currently works for Deloitte as a senior consultant. Rilei attributes a lot of his success to his time at UNH, learning how to communicate in English with different cultures and backgrounds. He is looking forward to coming back to Durham to reminisce about his most treasured memories.
Diep Tran ‘19 PAUL
Training Executive at An Binh Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ABBANK) | Vietnam
Diep Tran is a Training Executive at An Binh Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ABBANK) in Vietnam with 2 years of experience in the Training and Hospitality sections. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Peter T. Paul College in 2019 with a major in Business Administration (option in Management) and a minor in Hospitality Management. She was an active UNH student, serving as the President of the Vietnamese Student Association (VSA) at UNH, presenting at Cultural Connections each semester, winning academic awards, studying abroad in the UK and joining several student associations. Since graduation, her work focuses on internal training with main responsibilities including course delivering, training content development, data management, and hosting internal events. Diep also works closely with high school students as she is taking on a part-time job at an Academy in Hanoi as an advisor for study abroad preparation. Diep loves getting to know new people, sharing experiences and learning from people with diversified backgrounds.
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