Summary
Shahan Khan is an engineer and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building product-focused startups and developer-facing platforms from San Francisco. He has founded and led multiple companies—most recently as CTO and co-founder of Polymail—and now contributes to Notion’s engineering efforts after roles at Common Room and Broadcast. His background spans full-stack product development, IoT prototypes, and nonprofit fiscal sponsorship through Hacker Fund, reflecting a blend of technical execution and community-oriented impact. A UCLA-trained bioengineering alumnus, he brings cross-disciplinary curiosity to software problems and a practiced eye for design informed by a passion for photography. Colleagues describe him as a builder who moves between code, product and mission-driven work with equal comfort.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles