Karan Parikh
Founding Engineer at Paraform
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaran Parikh is a founding engineer and entrepreneur based in San Francisco with 14 years of software engineering experience focused on building products from 0→1. He co-founded Candora, a conversational AI hiring startup, and now leads product and engineering at Paraform, shaping the future of hiring. His hands-on background spans startup launches and platform work—shipping early V0 products at FalconX and contributing to content moderation and anti-bot systems at X. He also has applied ML research experience in vision models from Santa Clara University and holds dual BS degrees in Computer Science and Finance. Known for tackling ambiguous, high-leverage problems, he blends technical depth with product-minded leadership and a knack for turning interviews and recruiter workflows into automated, scalable experiences.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science BS Finance, BS Computer Science BS Finance at Santa Clara UniversityLynbrook High School
English, Gujarati, Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (23)
linkedin-api10
linkedin8
cluster-manager8
cli5
elevation5
lgbt5
networking5
geocoder5
python5
gist5
kubernetes4
zookeeper4
earth4
geocoding4
command-line-tool4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
karanparikh/Snip
Aug 2011 - Jan 2012
Contributions:10 commits in 5 months
karanparikh/gist
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 2 days
command-line-toolcommand-line-interfacegistcommand-linecli
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