Summary
Riyansh Karani is a versatile software engineer with 10 years of experience building full-stack, scalable systems from embedded firmware and FPGA work to high-throughput backend services and frontend platforms. Currently at Waymo, he develops large-scale simulation products for autonomous vehicles and previously built GraphQL services at Snap that handled 100k+ requests/sec and internal React frameworks that raised testing standards. He thrives on writing readable, well-architected, and well-tested code, and brings a systematic, experimental mindset from being self-taught and comfortable across Python, Java, C/C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, and multiple cloud and container technologies. Notably, he implemented a CRDT-based collaborative editor supporting hundreds of simultaneous editors with sub-1.5s latency and has hands-on experience bridging React into legacy PHP views to improve developer workflows. Based in San Jose, he enjoys mentoring peers and choosing pragmatic technology trade-offs that balance performance, maintainability, and team productivity.
10 years of coding experience