Shivani Kohli
Software Engineer III at PayPal
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShivani Kohli is a pragmatic Software Engineer III in San Francisco with a decade of engineering experience and over six years focused on frontend and full‑stack web applications. At PayPal she led a major AngularJS-to-React migration, built testing and CI scaffolding, and designed GraphQL integrations and retry/error plugins that improved developer ergonomics and production reliability. She pairs strong UI craftsmanship—Storybook-driven component work and localization—with backend fluency, having authored Java services and contributed backend fixes and tests to the well-known SymPy project. Comfortable with mentoring and cross-functional collaboration, she blends a math-heavy academic background with hands-on machine learning and automation experience from earlier research and industry roles. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic rollout plans, production incident ownership, and turning complex requirements into well-tested, maintainable code.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science (double major), 3.8/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science (double major), 3.8/4.0 at Marquette UniversityMathematics, Psychology, Legal Studies and German Language, 95%, Mathematics, Psychology, Legal Studies and German Language, 95% at Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram
English, Hindi, German, Punjabi
Github Skills (8)
mathematics10
computer-algebra10
math10
python10
computer-algebra-system10
testing10
print9
printing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sympy/sympy
Feb 2019 - May 2019
A computer algebra system written in pure Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 28 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Shivani primarily focused on improving the printing and testing functionalities within the `sympy/sympy` repository, specifically related to the `physics/vector` module. Their commits addressed issues related to Unicode and ASCII output in vector printing, fixing whitespace problems and resolving merge conflicts. They also added tests for the first-order derivative printing, demonstrating a focus on the correct display of mathematical expressions.
mathpythonsciencecomputer-algebra-systemalgebra
shivanikohlii/sympy
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Fork of a computer algebra system written in pure Python
Contributions:6 PRs, 22 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
aplpythoncomputer-algebra-systemsymbolic-mathalgebra
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