Sanjay Kannan
Engineering Manager at Roblox
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSanjay Kannan is a hands-on engineering manager in San Francisco with 13 years building high-stakes systems across startups and deep-technology labs. He moved from developer roles at Neuralink—where he decoded intracortical signals, authored implant SDKs and a neural-data IDE—to leading teams at Roblox, applying low-latency systems thinking to consumer-scale platforms. His background spans backend telemetry and ML at Skip, crypto primitives in Rust and Haskell for Cambrian, and research internships at Two Sigma, Google Research, and Twitter, showing fluency from compilers to ML-driven extraction and ranking. Known for shipping mission-critical, production-grade software, he combines systems-level architecture with practical bindings and SDK work across C++, Python, JavaScript, and Java. Notably, he implemented a batched RSA accumulator to shrink blockchain storage and created one of the first non-vision ML models to detect sidewalk riding for micromobility. He brings technical breadth, a taste for adversarial domains and unconventional interfaces, and a track record of turning research-grade ideas into operational products.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Raleigh Charter High SchoolB.S., B.S. at Stanford University
English, German, Tamil
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (92)
secp256k110
encryption9
bitcoin9
rust8
firebase-admin8
openframeworks8
firebase8
cryptography8
firebase-cloud-messaging8
deepstream8
firebase-authentication7
authentication7
zeplin7
nodejs7
firebase-db7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cambrian/accumulator
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
Cryptographic accumulators in Rust.
Contributions:3 releases, 210 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 2 months
cryptographyrustcryptographicsecp256k1bitcoin
whaatt/Authlet
Jul 2014 - Apr 2019
Contributions:31 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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