Summary
Etash Kalra is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building user-focused products, currently at Rippling in San Francisco where he co-owned and launched Rippling Chat and earlier helped found Scheduling and Workforce Management. He blends startup grit—co-founding Conifer, a degree management platform for higher-education—with enterprise-scale delivery, repeatedly taking features from alpha to GA. A Colorado native and summa cum laude computer science and applied mathematics graduate, Etash brings strong technical foundations and practical product instincts to solve complex workflow problems. His background includes hands-on work in biometric authentication, internships at JPL and NIST, and international study at NUS, reflecting both systems-level rigor and global perspective. Colleagues describe him as product-minded and curious, focused on freeing people to spend time on what matters most.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
International Exchange, School of Computing, International Exchange, School of Computing at National University of Singapore
IB Diploma, 42/45, IB Diploma, 42/45 at International Baccalaureate (IB)
Douglas County High School
BS Computer Science, BS Applied Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, BS Computer Science, BS Applied Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude at University of Colorado Boulder College of Engineering & Applied Science
English, Hindi, Spanish