# Keyan R.

> Alchemist

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Descript
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Generative Media

### Software Engineer @ Citadel Securities
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Software engineer on the Options Profits and Loss team.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York City Metropolitan Area
• Worked on network futures for bidirectional streaming calls to allow for more modularity and concurrent operations in Google Search, using Google’s Stubby streaming framework in C++
• Generalized the code using variadic template metaprogramming for flexibility of use

### Software Engineer Intern @ NVIDIA
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara County, California, United States
• Created a new queue and startup time dashboard for NVIDIA GeForce Now using Kibana, allowing the team to meet the promise of a 30 second queue duration for paid users
• Combined existing timestamps to create new data points using Databricks and SQL for a startup time prediction model

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Redmond, Washington, United States
• Created the backend for an email autoexpiry feature in C#, to be deployed to 25 million Outlook Premium users worldwide
• Patent: https://patents.justia.com/patent/10992650

### Research Assistant, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science @ University of Waterloo
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Generated a dataset of half a million ”Set” card combinations as images and feature vectors for CNN training, in Python
• Experimented with varying custom CNNs in Keras, using numerical and visual input/output formats, to perform feature
extraction and Set classification of sample hands
• Compared the custom CNNs against other state of the art architectures using Matlab and TensorFlow

### Software Developer Intern @ DarkMatter Group
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
• Reduced encryption and decryption runtimes by 3.3x and 3.9x respectively by implementing a new opportunistic locking algorithm for concurrent messaging, using Java and C
• Created a FIFO reader-writerlock as an alternative to the less flexible mutex lock for the messaging protocol in C

### Software QA Engineer Intern @ Apple
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Cupertino, California, United States
• Created a Python-based automation tool which emulated Bluetooth interaction with iOS for MFi game controllertesting
• Used OpenCV for detection of game elements during tests, and JavaScript to simulate userinteraction on the iOS device
• Selected as a top intern project and was given the opportunity to present to the Vice President of Product Integrity

### Software Developer Intern @ ApplyBoard
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Designed the software help dashboard for customers, aiding them in navigating the website (built with Ruby on Rails), decreasing the workload of the customer support team
• Created filters and features for searching schools and programs, making it easier for internal and external users to find information on the site


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering
University of Waterloo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/keyan-rhm

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Last updated: 2026-03-29