# Kiran P. > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kiranp Software engineer, mostly at early-stage companies where things are 0->1 SWE #5 at Reach Power — built the safety system for their wireless power transmitters that went into Toyota factories. Founded GovGnome to try making SF government data less opaque (harder than it sounds). Most recently at BuildIRL, helping build payments and membership infrastructure for social infrastructure. I gravitate toward the phase where you're still deciding what the thing even is. That usually means wearing a lot of hats and writing code that has to actually work in the real world — FCC compliance, Stripe edge cases, legislative scrapers that don't break too often. I'm into meditation — it's changed how I think about attention and what's worth building. Happy to chat about the any of the above and feel free to reach me at kiranp2357 at gmail dot com ## Work Experience ### Founding Engineer @ Build IRL Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area • Founding engineer, shipped end-to-end features supporting real-world club operations using Next.js, TypeScript, and Supabase, working in rapid weekly release cycles with the founding team. • Centralized Stripe access in a dedicated payments service and added idempotency guards, eliminating double-subscription edge cases and stabilizing billing. • Built membership-tier dues (quarterly/semi-annual), member application review + withdrawal, and a reusable email-template UI; refactored email pipeline for cleaner responsibilities. • Integrated PostHog and instrumented key flows to unblock product decisions; partnered with design to launch venue/discovery pages across 7+ hubs (Commons, Nook, DecantSF, etc.). ### Founder @ GovGnome Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States • Built GovGnome, an AI platform tracking San Francisco legislation in real-time to help businesses navigate regulatory processes, reduce compliance costs, and increase civic transparency. • Architected and built a functional prototype for San Francisco government transparency that could scrape and process 100+ legislative documents daily from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors with 98% accuracy using LLMs, React (Next.js), Typescript, and Supabase (PostgreSQL). • Performed 40+ user interviews following lean startup methodology, using qualitative analysis to identify key user pain points and translate them into technical requirements for the product roadmap. • Discovered a $400M TAM in SF for B2B regulatory compliance & permit processing solutions. • Generated a validated business case for permit processing optimization that demonstrated potential 40% reduction in approval time for local developers, saving them an estimated $25K per project and pivoting away from general transparency tools with limited market traction. ### Software Engineer @ Reach Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Redwood City, California, United States • SWE#5 at the company • Co-developed a safety-critical system for high-power wireless transmitters that passed UL certification for Toyota's factory deployment, implementing a hybrid computer vision/RF detection system with 99.8% accuracy for human detection, automatically lowering power to ensure FCC compliance and prevent harmful radiation exposure. • Achieved 96% precision in differentiating between human and non-human obstructions by designing state machine architecture that processed RF signal data in <15ms, applying statistical analysis. • Engineered TheOne, a distributed simulation framework that reduced QA testing time by 65%, scaling to 40 transmitters and 100 receivers by implementing message queuing with RabbitMQ and containerized test environments with Docker. • Mitigated regulatory risk and potential $1M+ in FCC penalties by developing comprehensive safety validation protocols with 15+ standardized test scenarios across various distances and beam offsets, supporting successful product deployment in a highly regulated manufacturing environment. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science University of California, Santa Cruz ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kiran-prasad --- Source: https://flows.cv/kiranp JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kiranp/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05