Lavanya Mittal
Senior Software Engineer at Figma
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLavanya Mittal is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building infrastructure and AI-driven features at companies like Asana and Figma, grounded in a CS degree from UC Berkeley. She has led enterprise infrastructure teams and shipped embeddings across Asana to enable retrieval-augmented workflows, combining systems design with applied ML. Her background includes internships at Google, research in deep learning and reinforcement learning, and teaching CS theory and algorithms as a UC Berkeley instructor. Lavanya takes an experimental, curiosity-driven approach—she recently spent time at the Recurse Center working on compilers, teaching incarcerated students, and volunteering for NY CERT—bringing both technical depth in computability/complexity and a commitment to mentorship and public service.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School, High School at Coronado High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
asana-api9
duplicates9
iterator8
macros8
api-client7
client-library7
rust6
high-performance6
api6
sdk6
java-client6
proxy6
golang5
java5
accelerator5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (4)
Asana/java-asana
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Official Java client library for the Asana API v1
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
api-clientapiasanaclient-librarysdk
Asana/devrel-examples
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
A place to share some examples from our Developer Relations team for commonly-asked-about workflows.
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 day
placerelationscommonlydeveloper-relationsworkflows
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