Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Taro grows your engineering career faster. Taro provides courses and discussions from leaders at the world's best tech companies. We focus on the skills *beyond* coding that are essential for effective engineers.
• Site: joinTaro.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jointaro/
• Twitter: https://x.com/join_taro

Jan 2021 – Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos · The Internet

• Working with my friend Alex Chiou to lower barriers within the tech industry. Free for everyone, everywhere. We hold regular live sessions where we talk about side projects, time management, engineering promotion, and more. Join us here:
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/techcareergrowth/
• Slack - https://lnkd.in/gdPmqDy
• Mailing list - https://learn.rkpandey.com/

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs · Stanford, California, United States

• Create and teach a new course in the Computer Science department, CS 194A: Android Programming Workshop (https://cs194a.stanford.edu).
• An intro class covering foundational techniques for developing Android mobile apps. Topics include: the Android ecosystem, Kotlin, UI elements, RecyclerView, navigation with intents, and working with 3rd party APIs and services such as Firebase.

Aug 2017 – Jan 2022 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Menlo Park, CA

• I built Meta Portal as part of the launch team. Portal is a category-defining video calling device with Alexa built-in. I led the development on the core audio and video calling functionality, inter-operating with the WebRTC stack used by Facebook Messenger.
• https://portal.facebook.com/

Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 · 3 yrs

• Helping build the largest pipeline of high-performing underrepresented engineers in the industry.
• I work with talented engineers, teachers, and operators to build the Codepath Android course, run at dozens of universities around the country. I've taught several classes and recorded many assignment walkthrough videos.
• Major funders include: Andreesen Horowitz, Facebook, Microsoft, and more. https://codepath.org/about

Jan 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco, CA

• My team created Buyable Pins, a cross-functional effort which resulted in thousands of merchants selling millions of products on the Pinterest platform. I was one of two developers to build the entire Android commerce experience, and I implemented the first version of the merchant onboarding API.
• On the side, I also built Android app shortcuts for the Pinterest app.

Aug 2014 – Jan 2015 · 5 mos · Palo Alto, CA

• Acquired by Pinterest: http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/21/facebook-past-google-present-pinterest-future/

Sep 2013 – Jun 2014 · 9 mos · Stanford, CA

• Worked with Jure Leskovec and Julian McAuley to implement a recommender system for the Simtk organization. Simtk.org is a site used by thousands of biomedical researchers who want to model physics-based simulation of biological structures.

Jun 2013 – Sep 2013 · 3 mos · Menlo Park, CA

• Designed and implemented ranking algorithm for reviews (recommendations) on Facebook pages. Incorporate features such as time, user trust, crowd feedback, and language detection.
• Wrote hive data pipelines that operate on restaurant reviews to extract keywords and insights to improve search results.

Jun 2012 – Sep 2012 · 3 mos · San Bruno, CA · On-site

• Built a Ruby on Rails web application to gain insights on the quality of search at Walmart.
• Automate data extraction from Hadoop using hive queries and Jenkins jobs. Optimize MySQL database behind the web app to deal with tens of millions of records. Handle petabyte scale data.

Sep 2011 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Stanford, CA

• Prepare and lead a section of 12 students for the introductory programming courses. Cover topics such as strings, abstract data types, recursion, and good programming practices.
• Hired by the CS198 program to provide feedback and grade student assignments and exams.