Summary
Karan Hora is a Seattle-based software engineer with 10 years of experience building data-driven systems and machine learning products, currently at Microsoft. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science (Data Science/Machine Learning) from SUNY Buffalo and has applied ML in production—from classifying exoplanets for academic publication to adaptive VR healthcare work that personalized patient rehab in real time. His background spans large-scale data pipelines and analytics (Spark/Scala/Hadoop) as well as full-stack and embedded solutions (Python, C#, Unity, SQLite), and he has a track record of speeding up critical pipelines and surfacing actionable insights for enterprise clients. Early startup and nonprofit initiatives show he combines technical depth with product instincts and operational grit, including founding a relief-focused e-commerce site that solved logistics and payment challenges. He brings a pragmatic blend of research experience and production engineering, comfortable taking prototypes to scalable deployments.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science - Data Science / Machine Learning, Master's degree, Computer Science - Data Science / Machine Learning at University at Buffalo
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University