# Anand Lakshminarayan > Engineering | Product Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/anand Graduate of UC Berkeley with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Hard-working, passionate, and driven software engineer who has worked cross-functionally with engineering, design and product and also with various departments such as Legal, Marketing, Business Development, Operations, Sales, and Customer Success. Extremely effective communicator and team player; main strength is ability to leverage both technical and communication skills to get the job done. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Pikkit Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area ### Founding Engineer @ Frontrow Health Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 First engineering hire ### Co-Founder @ Veridata Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Software Engineer @ Compass Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 ### Product Manager II @ Compass Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area ### Product Manager @ JW Player Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area ### Product Manager @ Checkr, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Joined as 3rd Product Manager and worked cross-functionally across Sales, Marketing, Finance, Customer Success, Legal, and Operations on numerous projects as the company grew from 3,000 to over 10,000 customers • Product owner for the Zillow Rental Applications experience integration with Checkr, leading to a new product line for the company and gathering press in The Verge and Geekwire • Led the end to end refactor of the Applicant Portal with Operations, Legal, and Design leading to 30% reduction in support ticket rate • Conducted deep research into core criminal screenings and found efficiencies in name searches that led to a 5% gross margin improvement • Collaborated with Sales, Customer Success, and Engineering to drive requirements and data pipeline to enable Checkr’s first customer-facing Analytics product • Coordinated strategic meeting with Drug Screening vendor and got buy-in from their CEO to build special features for our integration, leading to a total redesign of our Drug Screening product and improvement in applicant conversion by 10% ### Program Manager @ Microsoft Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Program Manager on the Windows Developer Ecosystem and Platform working on the Windows SDK for Facebook. -In charge of the features and roadmap for the Windows SDK for Facebook -Worked with stakeholders across the Windows division to create a consolidated open source release process document for teams -Gave a live talk and recorded session at Microsoft's Build Conference 2016: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P544 -Wrote a technical blog post on the SDK that appeared in Microsoft's Engineering blog: http://engineering.microsoft.com/2016/01/26/windows-sdk-for-facebook/ ### Program Manager Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Worked on Multilingual App Toolkit team, Microsoft's toolkit for assisting developers to localize their Windows apps developed in Visual Studio -in charge of features, workflow, and overall UI/UX design for MAT v4.0 -led customer engagement meetings to get feedback and feature requests for upcoming version -wrote up technical specifications and workflow design docs for v4.0 -developed a release plan and looked ahead to propose feature set for future versions of MAT -as a side project, programmed a Prep For Localization tool that automatically parses Visual Studio projects for hard coded strings and generates the necessary resource files to allow developers to easily localize their projects with MAT. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Pac-12 Enterprises Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Software Engineering intern assigned to many projects including: -headless test suite in Behat/Mink (Behavior Driven Development) -Analytics project in Python utilizing Ooyala API for video metrics with Geckoboard visual display -Scripts in Ruby with Watir-Webdriver for front-end website testing and using MLB API for daily game reporting to test websites scores and stats functionality ### Chair of Election Finance Committee @ Associated Students of the University of California Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Appointed Chair of Finance Committee to oversee campaign finance regulations and spending -Selected from over 90 applicants to lead team of Finance Commissioners -Interpreted campaign finance bylaws to decide what constituted as campaign spending -Created spreadsheets in Excel for each candidate and party to keep track of expenditures -Performed audits on candidates based on their financial records throughout the campaign -Led meetings with candidates and prepared agendas to go over progress of the Finance Committee as well as update the Senate on the Committee's current status -Resolved disputes between Commissioners and candidates to decide fairly on finance regulations ### Software Engineer Intern @ Ark.com Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Back-end engineering intern working on data extraction/information retrieval. -Assigned major projects and reported directly to the VP of Engineering. -Learned server-side Javascript, Node.js, and jQuery for HTML DOM parsing -Gained familiarity with Microsoft Windows Azure cloud software and Apache CouchDB -Performed basic Linux virtual machine management and shell scripting ## Education ### B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ### Irvington High School Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/anand-lakshminarayan --- Source: https://flows.cv/anand JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/anand/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20