# Ankita Pannu

> Software Engineer at Parafin

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ankitapannu

Software Engineer • Cornell CS '19 • Love building products that work at internet scale

6+ years of experience building distributed systems • Proficient in multiple languages (Java, Python, some JavaScript), cloud platforms (GCP, AWS) and associated technologies (SQL, NoSQL, Redis, Pub/Sub) • Background includes applied AI/ML (Keras, TensorFlow, scikit-learn) • Currently pursuing a master’s in CS with a focus on ML.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Parafin
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer, Google Play @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Develop backend components for the subscriptions platform within a distributed, event-driven microservices architecture
• Enhance subscription lifecycle state machines and rule engine to support dynamic entitlements and targeted monetization across user segments
• Collaborate cross-functionally with legal, UX, and product teams

### Software Engineer, Creative Cloud @ Adobe
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
• Developed plugins for Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator to enable content creation and delivery of in-app tutorials using full-stack technologies and REST APIs
• Led localization efforts across 21 locales, including scoping, build management, and release coordination
• Monitored and debugged production systems with Splunk and Grafana to ensure stability and performance

### Undergraduate AI Teaching Assistant @ Cornell University College of Engineering
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Ithaca, New York Area
• TA for CS 4700: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence 
• Held office hours and graded assignments and exams

### Machine Learning Intern @ Adobe
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Interned in the Creative Imaging Services team within Adobe Creative Cloud
• Integrated data ingest APIs with Adobe's flagship product, Photoshop to gather event data for predicting user intent
• Built new actions for the application using TensorFlow.js and automatic speech recognition APIs

### Software Engineering Intern @ Adobe
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Interned in the Identity Services team within Adobe Experience Cloud
• Applied machine learning techniques to device activity data to create links between logical and physical devices
• Conducted feature engineering and data transformation to create a high-performing ensemble for mobile device links
• Created a truth set based on chronological activity patterns in non-mobile device data (patent issued: https://patents.justia.com/patent/20190287025)

### Software Design & Development Intern @ IBM
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Interned in the Analytics Platform group
• Conducted a heuristic evaluation of IBM’s Data Science Experience analytics tool
• Created an interactive platform (web-app) for the design team to carry out research on user personas (React.js, Node.js)


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Cornell University

### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### High School
The Harker School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ankitapannu

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Last updated: 2026-04-01