# Dimple Jethani > Software Engineer at Khan Academy | Prev @ Google, CZI Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dimple ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Khan Academy Jan 2024 – Present • Full-stack web engineer on the Teacher Experience (TX) team • Tech Lead of Concierge - a super search system allowing teachers to search across Khan Academy data sources while chatting with Khanmigo ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States - Web engineer on Consumer Clients and Helpful Conversations developing the Desktop experience of Business Messaging - Awards: Spot Bonus Award given by my manager and Peer Bonus Award given by my Tech Lead - Led feature parity on our Desktop client to match our Android experience, added service worker to optimize request latency (ex: caching request data), and added navigation support in the Desktop Client - Wrote Technical Docs & Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) and led reviews amongst XFN stakeholders; Collaborated with PMs during Privacy and Legal reviews to gain approval before a feature launch ### Software Engineer @ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Redwood City, California • Full-stack web engineer on the Notebooks team developing a rich text editor to support different student learning types and to allow teachers to effectively provide feedback • Led E2E development of Edited Timestamps, a live-update feature letting teachers track student assignment progress in real time during a class period - Designed a Redis-based session layer to generate temporary view session data for teachers with 2-hour TTL. A redis entry was created when teachers loaded the Feedback page to limit unnecessary updates across the pubsub channel. - Launched in a 4 rollout approach: Store BE timestamp updates when students open/edit documents, publish timestamps over pubsub channel, subscribe teachers to channel on client, and then show real-time updates on feedback page to teacher • Built a two-step image deletion pipeline to delete images from a content addressable storage (CAS) - which points multiple images to the same resource in AWS. Images were from notebooks that had already been deleted. - Shifted to a Base storage uploader so we create individual copies of each image per notebook in AWS - Deleted ~140K images from S3 and ~71K DB instances ### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area • Full-stack iOS using Hack, XHP, Objective-C, and JS to build UI frameworks • Worked on mobile product infrastructure and open-source code to develop debugging tools for users ### Program Manager Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area Developer and Ecosystem Platform PM Team - AI and Ink • Designed new UX for digital pen users on Windows • Wrote white paper expressing value proposition of potential UX with competitive analysis of seven existing in-market designs • Built prototype of three interaction models in C# and conducted two user studies to test pain points • Acted as customer’s advocate when pitching problem space and promoted the necessity to build this feature to stakeholders • Wrote developer guidance to aid internal + external developers to build proposed model and explain potential use cases ### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, CA • Messenger Pay on iOS: Payment Products Platform Team • Skills Learned: Objective-C, iOS Development, ComponentKit, Mercurial Version Control • One project I worked on with my team was integrating Paypal as a payment method on iOS Messenger ### Campus Ambassador @ Facebook Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Irvine, CA • Plan FB events (tech talks and intern panel) for students at UCI ### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Menlo Park, CA • Developed an iOS social media app, Capsule, which allows users to post text and pictures sometime in the future, either through individual posts or collaborating within groups • Capsule's photos are taken either through a user's photo library or custom camera • Learned Swift & Parse through CodePath to develop versions of Instagram, Twitter, and Flix • Gained exposure of tech company's environment while attending demonstrations hosted by multiple teams, such as Oculus and Newsfeed ### Undergraduate Research Assistant - Autonomous Quadcopter Project @ UC Irvine Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Irvine, California • Learned how to build & code a remote-controlled and autonomous quadcopter under the mentorship of Professor Ian Harris and used CleanFlight software to test flight • Used a multiplexor to make dual settings between manual and autonomous control • Utilized Adafruit GPS shield to map out quadcopter coordinates and Arduino Uno to control autonomous control • Presented a build demo to teachers in Orange County preparing students for a quadcopter competition ### Sergeant of Police Explorer Post #119 @ City of Fremont Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Fremont, CA • Attended ride-alongs with officers while learning about law enforcement through training • Attended Phases 1 and 2 of a Law Enforcement Explorer Academy (8-day para-military boot camp) at UCSD • Volunteered over 400 hours to the PD ### Aeromechanics Branch Intern @ NASA Ames Research Center Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Moffett Field, CA • Studied photogrammetry with retro reflective targets using software and hardware to 3D model a V22 TRAM and hover chamber room • Learned basic design forms for rotor blade and hub systems; built rotorcraft models for final display; wrote research report on V-22 Osprey, a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft • Gained beginner experience in Rhino 5, a 3D modeling software ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science UC Irvine ### Computer Science King's College London ### Stanford University Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 ### University of California, Berkeley Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ### Mission San Jose High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dimple-jethani --- Source: https://flows.cv/dimple JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dimple/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23