Alumni Advisory Board
Members of the Alumni Advisory Board get tremendous personal and professional satisfaction by giving of themselves to their alma mater and fellow alumni. The mission of the Board is to enhance the connectedness of the worldwide Masters of Software Engineering Professional Programs community by acting as ambassadors and encouraging engagement through volunteering, philanthropy, events and advocacy. The Alumni Advisory Board also helps ensure that appropriate resources and programs exist to further enrich the MSE experience.

Swati Priyam (MSE 2015)
Director of Product Management, AKKO

Mario A. Riveros Trujillo (MSE 2013)
Founder & Managing Partner, Kuparu

Clifford Huff (MSE 1994)
Senior Mentor, MSE / Software & Societal Systems Department, CMU

Su-Ting "Shooting" Chuang (MSE Pro 2022)
Senior Software Engineer, Meta

Anant Gupta (MSE 2011)
Chief Technology Officer, Mixpane

Ateeq Sharfuddin (MSE Online 2024)
Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Eduardo Frias (MSE 1994)
Field Chief technology Officer, Shopify

Harsh Vershney (MSE-Scalable Systems 2020)
Software Engineer, Google

Andrew Mellinger (MSE 2010)
Principal Engineer, Software Engineering Institute

Shubham Anandani (MSE 2016)
Engineering Manager, LinkedIn
Alumni Board Responsibilities
- Serve as the voice of alumni by overseeing and providing input on alumni programs and services
- Assist in identifying and implementing programming that will enhance the student experience
- Initiate outreach to and seek engagement with fellow alumni through programs and events
- Build and develop the alumni volunteer pipeline
- Serve as representatives and ambassadors for the MSE
Former Board Members

Laila Alhmoud (MSE 2016)
Manager, Upstream Subsurface Digital Factory, Aramco

Andrei Girenkov (MSIT-SE 2009)
Chief Technology Officer, CSC ServiceWorks

Yazid Hamdi (MSIT-SE 2017)
Chief Technology Officer, Troutwood

Chetan Kovvuri (MSIT-SE 2016)
Manager, Deloitte

Dewanne Phillips, Ph.D. (MSIT-SE 2012)
Principal, Software Engineering Institute
Linda Wu (MSIT-SE 2017)
Senior Software Engineer, Atlassian

Mike Lester (MSE 2002)
IT Principal Technical Architect, USAA

Sankha Pathak (MSE 2013)
Director of Engineering, Product Platfor, Datadog

Boris Portman (MSE 1996)
Founder/CEO, Salsa Ventures, LLC
Founder & CEO, Better Engineer

Gregg Schoonover (MSE 1997)
Founding Partner, Erudite Technology Group