Kasra Kyanzadeh

Work Experience

1. San Francisco, CA

   Watershed

   Engineering Manager (Jan 2022–present)
   • Managing 12 engineers across two product engineering teams
   Software Engineer (July 2020–Jan 2022)
   • Joined as the 1st hire, led the development of many product features and pinch-hit on design, marketing, recruiting, and sales
2. San Francisco, CA

   Airtable

   Product Architect (November 2018–July 2020)
   • Product & tech lead for developer platform: blocks/apps/extensions, scripting, API, integrations
   Software Engineer (June 2015–November 2018)
   • Joined as the 4th hire, led development of the iPad app (featured on the App Store), first versions of gallery view, kanban view, desktop app, as well as the extension system which launched the Airtable developer platform
3. Mountain View, CA

   Khan Academy

   Software engineering intern (Summer 2014)
   • Shipped interactive features for math exercises in the iPad app.
4. San Francisco, CA

   Optimizely

   Software engineering intern (Summer 2013)
   • Prototyped an iOS framework and web editor that enables A/B testing of native apps without recompiling binaries.
5. San Francisco, CA

   Mixpanel

   Software engineering intern (Summer 2012)
   • Worked on Mixpanel's status page, iOS library, and background task queue.

Education

University of Toronto

Old personal projects (pre-2015)

1. Swing Away

   2D iOS game with solid-body and rope physics. Downloaded over 500,000 times.

2. Jukebox

   iOS app that allows music playback to be controlled from any web browser.

3. App Maker

   Web IDE for beginners to make simple web apps.

4. Treevis

   In-browser visualization of binary tree algorithms.

5. Classtell.com

   Website-builder for teachers with homework postings, calendars, and blogs.