Arun Saigal
Co-Founder And CEO at San Francisco Civic Music Association
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArun Saigal is a founder and CEO with 14 years of engineering and product experience who built Thunkable into a globally used no-code platform, empowering over 3 million people across 184 countries to create more than 7 million apps. An MIT S.B./M.Eng. in EECS (AI concentration), he blends deep technical chops from roles at Quizlet, Khan Academy, Google and MIT App Inventor with product-first leadership to make native mobile development accessible without code. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30, Arun focuses on closing the gap between ideas and deployment through drag-and-drop UX, extensible integrations, and streamlined publishing workflows. He also contributes to open-source education tooling (notably UI improvements to Khan Academy’s exercises) and unexpectedly conducts music in San Francisco, reflecting a pattern of building community both through technology and the arts.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Concentration: Artificial Intelligence), Master of Engineering (MEng) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Concentration: Artificial Intelligence) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyY CombinatorPhillips Academy
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
jquery9
css4
html4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Khan/khan-exercises
May 2012 - Jul 2012
A (deprecated) framework for building exercises to work with Khan Academy.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Arun primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and improving the user experience of the Khan Academy exercises. They implemented functionality to disable the "Check Answer" button when the input field is empty, and enabled it via keypress. The changes also incorporated fixes for whitespace and addressed merge conflicts. They also made minor changes related to custom stack IDs.
khan-academy
quizlet/facebook-android-sdk
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
facebook-sdkandroidsdkfacebook
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