# Dhruv Kathuria

> Congressional Innovation Fellow @ TechCongress

Ex-Senior Software Engineer
Passionate about privacy and civic tech

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

Talk to me about data privacy
Reach out at dkathuria [at] berkeley [dot] edu!

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Pavilion
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Nextdoor
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Trust & Safety

- Implemented a variety of features around election preparedness for the 2020 and 2022 elections, including moderation around vitriolic posts, nudges on content, and misinformation downranking. The same approach was used for Covid information management as well.

- Designed and built a complete microservice to detect and flag harmful media content, including CSAM, using advanced tools like Google Video Intelligence and image hashing, resulting in robust protection for platform users.

- Built a backtesting system enabling customer success agents to assess content mitigation strategies using historical platform data, enhancing overall effectiveness and results.

### Privacy and Civil Liberties @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | London, England, United Kingdom
Privacy and Civil Liberties

### Software Engineering Intern @ Redfin
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Search Experience

### Software Engineer Intern @ Verizon
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Basking Ridge, NJ
Big Data and AI


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
University of California, Berkeley

### High School Diploma
Bridgewater Raritan High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29