Punit Arani
Senior Software Engineer at Handshake
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPunit Arani is a Software Engineer II based in San Francisco with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack applications, embedded systems, and ML-driven products. He has moved between startup and product roles—co-founding a Berkeley SkyDeck-backed fintech, leading software for NOCO AIR, and delivering Next.js apps and Temporal-powered automations at Slash—now contributing at Handshake. His background spans firmware and PCB design to web-scale transaction workflows, reflecting a rare blend of hardware, machine learning R&D, and production web engineering. A summa cum laude computer science graduate with an MS from UPenn, Punit combines rigorous academic training with pragmatic shipping instincts and a knack for turning research prototypes into customer-ready features.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityMountain Ridge High School
Github Skills (31)
google-flights10
api10
webdrivermanager10
cli10
selenium9
python9
database9
driver9
sql-database8
go8
sql8
cockroachdb8
webdriver8
high-availability7
raycast7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
punitarani/abadge
Mar 2026 - Jun 2026
Contributions:6 reviews, 65 PRs, 283 pushes in 2 months
punitarani/centarus
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:19 PRs, 70 pushes, 15 branches in 2 months
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