# Kasra Koushan

> senior software engineer | prev asana swe, penn cs, google apm

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

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ January
Jan 2024 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Iter AI
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
building a developer framework for AI agents (typescript, some react + rust)

### Accessibility Engineer @ Asana
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States
Engineer on the Accessibility frameworks team

### Product Engineer @ Asana
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater New York City Area
Engineer on the Track Anything team. Built Nested Portfolios, enabling users to have multi-level hierarchical organization of their projects. Also built Multi-Select Custom Fields, which was a top feature request for several years. 

Led and improved several team processes (standups, retro meetings), served as a UI Engineering mentor for other engineers, and also mentored two interns. Was technical lead for several projects, leading technical design, costing, and sequencing for groups of 3-4 engineers.

### Associate Product Manager Intern @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View
Google Play Commerce

### Developer, Executive @ Hack4Impact
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Philadelphia, PA
Developer, External Relations Chair at Hack4Impact, a student-run organization which develops software projects for charities and other organizations.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Khan Academy
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA
Interned on the backend and frontend teams doing performance testing of Google App Engine, building a mobile-responsive modal for the Math Missions exercises, and building the new Subject Pages in React

### iOS Engineering Intern @ Over
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Engineering intern at Over, a photo-editing app for iOS with 200,000 monthly users. Built a working prototype for a brand new editing capability in the application. Worked with Core Graphics, Core Animation, and other libraries to implement a low-level graphics rendering tool.

### Teaching Assistant @ Mathematics, University of Toronto
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Toronto, ON
Teaching assistant for MAT224 (Linear Algebra II), giving weekly tutorials to a section of 30 students and weekly Math Aid Centre hours.

### Research Assistant @ Astrophysics, McGill University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Research assistant for Dr. Andrew Cumming of the astrophysics department at McGill, funded by NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award. Assisted in producing models of exoplanets to estimate values for core fraction, envelope entropy and envelope mass, given mass and radius measurements. Developed programs in Python that involved adaptive-step numerical integration, optimization, interpolation, and Monte Carlo methods.

### Research Assistant @ Sociology & Philosophy, University of Toronto
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Assisted Dr. Lorne Tepperman of the Sociology Department in textbook revision and synthesis of recent sociological research, and assisted Dr. Doug Hutchinson of the Philosophy Department in bibliography editing; credited in "Starting Points" by Dr. Tepperman and "Aristotle: His Life and School" edited by Dr. Hutchinson


## Education
### Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) in Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) in Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor of Science in Mathematics/Computer Science
University of Toronto
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

### TOPS Program
Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kasrakoushan
- Website: https://kasra.io/

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Last updated: 2026-03-20