Priya Shastri is a Senior Engineer in the Cloud efficiency and Optimization Team under the Developer Engineering Organization at GEICO. She has been a software engineer for 18+ years and has a lot of experience working in software teams. She has earned several certifications in the AWS and Azure cloud spaces. Recently she has started blog writing and likes to teach. She has taught 4 courses on AI which are published on the UDEMY platform. Priya is a Toastmaster in District 101. She has served on the Lynbrook Grad Night Boosters as Vice President in the year 2023-2024 and as Area Director D57-F19 for Toastmasters, and Treasurer/Secretary of “The WIT Network Northern California Chapter (also known as the Women in Tech Network in 2023-2024). Priya recently spoke at Women Impact Tech in July 2024 in San Francisco, CA, and at the American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin(ASEI) in Sept 2024 at Cal State University Forum in Fullerton, CA.

She is the serves as the Parks and Recreation Commissioner for the City of Saratoga. She was the Heritage Preservation Commissioner from 2021-2024. You can reach Priya at priyashastrisaratoga [at] gmail.com and on LinkedIn at https://linkedin.com/in/priyashastri.