Vinesh Kannan
Staff Software Engineer at Ambience Healthcare
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolVinesh Kannan is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years building user-centered frontends and efficient backends across healthcare, civic tech, and education. He has led product and platform work at Nuna and Google, reduced clinical burnout at Ambience Healthcare, and co-founded an edtech startup that was acquired. Vinesh teaches widely on ethics, epidemiology, machine learning, and digital art, and channels that interdisciplinary curiosity into projects like Panopticon, a virtual escape room exploring surveillance ethics that over 500 people have played. He combines hands-on coding and mentoring with a knack for translating complex technical and social problems into engaging experiences and practical systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologySchaumburg High SchoolIllinois Mathematics and Science Academy
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Github Skills (94)
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prediction-model8
health8
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transit7
geodesy7
noaa7
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
illinoistechesi/battleship
Jul 2017 - Mar 2018
An extensible navel battle game to teach students about Java.
Contributions:70 commits, 13 PRs, 71 pushes in 8 months
gamebattleteachextensiblejava
vingkan/haxclass
Dec 2020 - Jul 2021
Tools for running a class about analytics for HaxBall.
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 72 pushes in 7 months
analyticshaxball
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