# Arpan Laha > Software Engineer @ Coda Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/arpan Software Engineer on the Model Infrastructure team at Coda, focusing on formula execution and performance. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Coda Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Co-Director @ Hack4Impact Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 ### Product Manager @ Hack4Impact Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Designed and delivered applications, leading team to ensure development best enhanced clients’ and user’s outcomes in various social good sectors Aided developers in learning and using application technologies - React, Redux, Flask, PostgreSQL, Box API, Electron, OpenCV, scikit-image Spring 2019 – Kiva: built a web app streamlining Kiva’s partner accreditation, consolidating multi-platform communication into a single portal Fall 2019 – UIC: created a cross-platform desktop app helping spinal surgery lab technicians visualize patient progress from post-op and recovery x-rays ### Product Research Lead @ Hack4Impact Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 Sourced projects for upcoming semesters, leading team of other Product Research committee members. Scheduled calls with nonprofits to discuss pain points and how to use technology to aid their cause. Conducted user research to determine if a proposed solution best fits the nonprofit’s needs. Ran meetings with Hack4Impact members to discuss sourcing efforts and define direction for potential future projects. ### Software Developer @ Hack4Impact Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Developed web app for Child’s Play Charity to match hospitalized children with video games to use as therapy, utilizing Flask and PostgreSQL to store/access information about supported video games and fetch information about games using Giant Bomb’s API. ### Program Manager Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Investigated opportunities for deploying Flask and Django on Azure Functions and adjacent serverless solutions offered by Azure ### Marketing Staff @ Reflections | Projections Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 Coordinated marketing efforts for student-run tech conference, contributing to 50% increase in attendance from 2017 to 2018. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 Designed tool to detect violations of SDK design guidelines by team’s engineers, constructing ESLint plugin in TypeScript to seamlessly integrate with existing workflow pipelines. Enforced design guidelines with a focus on modularity, utilizing TypeScript's compiler API to gain insight into package structure and cross-file interactions within code. Iterated using engineers’ feedback to best streamline team workflow, delivering multiple releases and publications on NPM. ### Computation Institute Summer Intern @ University of Chicago Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Dynamically modelled air quality and its determinants across Chicago in fully open-source project in conjunction with the Partnership for Healthy Cities. Aggregated data sources into one dashboard for visualization after reprojecting and analyzing data to ensure that model had full coverage and was properly constructed. Utilized R, Python, SQL, and GIS software for spatiotemporal analysis and visualization. ### Summer Intern @ Fermilab Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 Developed and optimized pattern-recognition algorithm for Mu2e project detector in order to sort out specific, undesired particle signatures, reducing runtime by a factor of three while maintaining comparable accuracy to previous algorithms ### Summer Intern @ Fermilab Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Applied an Artificial Neural Network to Mu2e particle detector's pattern recognition, devising method to select optimal particle track reconstruction from original and alternative pattern recognition algorithms ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 ### Metea Valley High School Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arpanlaha - Website: https://arpanlaha.com - GitHub: https://github.com/arpanlaha --- Source: https://flows.cv/arpan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/arpan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20