Nisha Yerunkar
Software Engineer at Khan Academy
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNisha Yerunkar is a software engineer at Khan Academy with a decade of experience building accessible, user-focused front-end applications using React. She has a strong track record of improving accessibility for screen readers across production sites and is expanding her backend skills with Go. Based in Mountain View, she moved from multiple internships at Khan Academy and Google into a full-time role, blending product-oriented frontend work with growing systems-level backend contributions. Her academic background in mathematics and computer science from UC San Diego informs a thoughtful, data-minded approach to engineering problems. Colleagues describe her as quietly impactful—she surfaces subtle UX barriers and ships pragmatic fixes that benefit large numbers of learners.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
Github Skills (17)
ui-components10
khan-academy10
editor10
renderer10
react10
react-components9
react-redux8
mathquill8
calculator7
redux6
javascript4
mathematics4
math4
codebase1
textlint1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
VkKyPg/faces
Jul 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:16 pushes in 9 months
nishasy/math-input
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
math-input = react + redux + mathquill
Contributions:8 pushes, 4 branches in 14 days
mathreactreact-reduxreduxreact-input
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