# Karan Arora

> Software Engineer at LinkedIn

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/karanarora

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Machine Learning @ LinkedIn
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Data Scientist @ Mindstrong
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on pipelines for modeling patient-therapist conversations:
- Used word/sentence embedding methods (word2vec, transformers) to build representations of conversation language that were used to predict insights from the conversations. 
- Built models for predicting patient risk & symptoms from conversations.
- Did various analyses & produced visualizations for scoping out useful insights from conversation data to show our clinicians/members. 

Tools used: Pytorch/Spacy/Huggingface (NLP), Spark/SQL/Numpy/Pandas/Sklearn/Matplotlib (General data processing/modeling), Databricks (platform)

### Data Scientist @ Earnin
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
At Earnin, I did various projects on the risk team:
- Engineered features, defined labels & tuned hyperparameters of regression/tree-based models for predicting credit risk. 
- Did feature engineering & performance analysis to build rule-based fraud model from scratch for new savings feature. 
- Built dashboards for monitoring various types of risk.

Tools used: Python/SK-Learn/Pandas/Numpy (developing models), SQL/Redshift/Sisense (analysis/monitoring), AWS (platform)

### Software Developer Intern, Neuroscience of Cognitive Control Lab @ Princeton University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Princeton, NJ
I worked on PsyNeuLink, a modeling framework for cognitive neuroscience:
- Built an abstraction for parsing cognitive models made in PsyNeuLink and building them out identically in Pytorch, enabling them to be trained faster. 
- Improved model training time by ~100x without sacrificing the ease-of-use/modularity PsyNeuLink provides. 
- Wrote extensive tests to ensure abstraction correctness and measure training speedup for different model architectures.

Tools used: Pytorch/Numpy


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Princeton University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019

### Summer Session in Statistics
Stanford University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017

### Summer Session in Macroeconomics
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### International Baccalaureate
The International School Bangalore
Jan 2006 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/karan-arora-3b9380ba

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Last updated: 2026-03-23