Riyansh Karani
Software Engineer at Waymo
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRiyansh 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.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois ChicagoBachelor’s Degree, Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics Engineering at Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering
Github Skills (7)
robot6
robotics4
m-files4
octave3
gnu3
tensorflow2
python2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
projectscara2014/handwriting_recognition
Oct 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:178 commits, 18 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
RiyanshKarani011235/IMU-based-pen-mini-project-semester-6
Oct 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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