Punit Arani
Software Engineer II at Handshake
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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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
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude at Arizona State University3.96 (4.75 weighted), 3.96 (4.75 weighted) at Mountain Ridge High SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (30)
webdrivermanager10
cockroachdb9
sql9
database9
sql-database9
distributed-database8
go8
mysql8
selenium8
postgresql8
webdriver7
kubernetes7
distributed-systems7
insider7
cloud-native7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
punitarani/centarus
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:19 PRs, 70 pushes, 15 branches in 2 months
punitarani/InsiderTradesTracker
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Realtime SEC Insider Trades Tracker
Contributions:247 commits, 3 PRs, 70 pushes in 2 months
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