# Dhruv Khanna > Ambient.ai | University of Washington, Seattle Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dhruvkhanna ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer II @ Ambient.ai Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer @ Ambient.ai Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer @ Direqt Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Software Engineer @ Direqt Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Graduate Research Intern @ Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States Make4All Lab - Currently working on Physical Computing Streaming Sensor data Toolkit (PSST), a pioneering toolkit tailored for blind and visually impaired (BVI) developers that Enables real-time sensor data comprehension through sonifications from Web-Speech API. ### Technology and Communications Lead (Disability Resources for Students) @ University of Washington Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Back End Developer (Graduate and Professional Student Senate) @ University of Washington Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States - Spearheaded the design and implementation of a website for UW students to engage with their student government. Leveraged proficiency in JavaScript and WordPress to create an intuitive and visually appealing user interface. - Enhanced information accessibility by integrating a powerful search function and tag system for archived public documents, leading to 30% faster document retrieval and significant boost in search accuracy. ### Technology and Communications Assistant (Disability Resources for Students) @ University of Washington Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States - Assisting with workstation setup/maintenance and network administration - Maintaining work records with UW’s service management (ticketing) system - Troubleshooting departmental software and hardware issues - Interacting with UW-IT on specific projects; and communicating via email with students, vendors, and other parties as needed. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Zonar Systems Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States - Worked as part of the data ingestion team managing the incoming data for approximately 30,000 tracking devices that are installed across the world on school buses, freight trucks, passenger vehicles etc. - Co-developed a Python-based microservice to detect anomalies (e.g., stuck odometer, GPS discrepancies) before user by processing data from Zonar's Light Duty Telematics Control Unit. Attained 70% improvement in anomaly resolution by consistently monitoring issues through a daily Datadog dashboard review in standup meetings. - Revamped data ingestion pipeline by implementing direct message transfer from Pub/Sub to BigQuery using Google Cloud's Write to BigQuery API; attained 33% cost reduction in data ingestion operations, enhancing efficiency and scalability of the system. ### Software Engineering - Senior Associate @ Telstra Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India - Worked as a full stack developer as a part of team Stockholm for designing quarterback, a one-stop portal for microservices management. Monitored the onboarding of more than 200 microservices onto quarterback, significantly reducing the time spent by developers looking for metrics. - Implementing, testing, and deploying custom plugins on quarterback for displaying microservice metrics like NewRelic logs, SonarQube analysis, CI/CD Pipeline Information, etc. ### Software Engineering - Associate @ Telstra Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Designed templates for microservices in multiple languages like Python, Java, JavaScript, and Golang. - Developed a logging library known as Common Logging Frameworks that was instrumental in standardizing logs for microservices created using NodeJS. ### Full Stack Developer @ Dotvik Solutions Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Gurgaon, India - Developed a parser for converting MODBUS data streams into floating-point values and mapping the parsed values to their respective parameters like Watts, Voltage, Current, Frequency, etc., for calculating the efficiency of machines installed in a factory remotely. - Used D3.js for data visualization, representing parameter values as graphs and analyzing that data to determine the most efficient cycle of running the different components in the production assembly line, which in turn was instrumental in bringing down the monthly electricity expenditure by about 20%. - Designed a remotely controlled IoT-based smart switch prototype using a NodeMCU development kit which was later sent to production and sold as a part of the company's starter kit. ### Frontend Web Developer @ ESC INDIA Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | ESC 155 , Okhla phase III , New Delhi-110020 • Led a team of 4 interns responsible for making the company’s website responsive and user-friendly by doing a complete refactor of the frontend using React and Material-UI ## Education ### Master's degree in Information Management University of Washington ### Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology ### High School in Science Delhi Public School Vasant Kunj ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dhruvkhanna38 --- Source: https://flows.cv/dhruvkhanna JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dhruvkhanna/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10