Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Websites
References
Timeline
Generic

Ishani Pandya

Fremont,CA

Summary

Dynamic Software Engineer with a proven track record at Khan Academy, specializing in AI-driven solutions and backend development using Go. Achieved 95% accuracy in course recommendations and enhanced user experience through performance optimization. Recognized for exceptional collaboration and clear documentation, driving impactful results across 400 school districts and 10 million students.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer

Khan Academy
Mountain View, California
08.2023 - Current
  • Company Overview: the leading AI in education company
  • Coordinated with designers to optimize user interface and experience across web applications.
  • Developed course recommendation engine utilizing LLMs to align district courses with Khan Academy content achieving 95% accuracy
  • Implemented automated testing procedures to ensure software quality and reliability.
  • Participated in code reviews to maintain high coding standards among team members.
  • Developed, tested, debugged and documented software programs using Go and TypeScript
  • Designed and tested AI prompts with automated evaluations, ensuring accuracy and reliability at scale.
  • Facilitated internal knowledge-sharing sessions focused on prompt engineering best practices and AI-driven workflows.
  • Enabled district administrators to set mastery goals for students, nearly doubling learning efficacy, across 400 school districts and 10M students.
  • Designed a nationwide rollout process for Brazil, removing 40+ hours of manual setup per district and ensuring data accuracy and smooth adoption.
  • Improved dashboard performance for teachers by shifting heavy operations to background processing, cutting load times and improving reliability.
  • Launched a self-serve trial program used by 40+ districts, saving ~$250K in licensing costs.
  • Recognized by leadership and peers for speed, reliability, and clear documentation, including praise in company-wide updates.

Software Engineering Intern

Khan Academy
Mountain View, CA
06.2022 - 09.2022
  • Implement a reusable GCP PubSub topic operator that will subscribe to multiple topics, poll them for new messages, and create appropriate workloads
    to process these messages in Kubernetes; generate reports for District Administrators and write tests for them in Go.

Software Engineer Intern

Khan Academy
Mountain View, CA
06.2021 - 09.2021
  • Working on the site reliability (SRE) team, ensuring that products are reliable and performant, working on a real-time error alerting pipeline, working with production-scale data, and developing data analytic skills with SQL, Go, and Python.

Education

Bachelor's degree - Computer Science

University of California, Davis
Davis, CA
06-2023

Skills

  • AI & LLMs: Prompt engineering, AI-powered recommendations, evaluation/testing of AI systems, AI-assisted development (Cursor IDE)
  • Backend Development: Go, PostgreSQL, Datastore, SQL optimization, GraphQL APIs
  • Frontend Development: TypeScript, React, performance optimization, feature flags
  • Cloud & Tools: Google Cloud Platform, CI/CD, Kubernetes, debugging with logs/monitoring
  • Collaboration: Technical documentation, project demos, mentoring, stakeholder alignment

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Software Engineer

Khan Academy
08.2023 - Current

Software Engineering Intern

Khan Academy
06.2022 - 09.2022

Software Engineer Intern

Khan Academy
06.2021 - 09.2021

Bachelor's degree - Computer Science

University of California, Davis

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE