# Kushal Ranjan

> Software Engineer at Waymo

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Waymo
Jan 2021 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Machine learning engineer working on reducing the distribution of harmful content on Facebook.

### Software Engineer @ Oculus VR
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park, CA

### Course Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Stanford, CA
CA for CS224N: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning in Winter 2017.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Menlo Park, CA
Worked on a context-aware, phrase/sentence-level autocomplete system in the Applied Machine Learning group.

### Graduate Student Researcher @ Stanford University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Stanford, CA
Working as a student research assistant in the Stanford AI Lab.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA
Worked on the MyMaps Search and Discovery team on an applied machine learning problem. Explored and implemented solutions to a classification problem over the corpus of public MyMaps maps, making use of Google's machine learning infrastructure to do so.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Mountain View, CA
Worked with Trust Formats team in the Ads Quality department on one of the formats that serve as annotations below Google search ads.

### Software Developer @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Berkeley, CA
Worked with National Instruments to develop an open-source system for automatically graded electronics labs. Goal is to turn hardware-oriented electrical engineering courses into viable and affordable massive open online courses.

### Research Intern @ Berkeley Laboratory for Automation Science and Engineering
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Berkeley, CA
Undergraduate research intern working on project in social media. Created HTML5 version of existing application for distribution on mobile devices.

### Software Development Intern @ Yahoo!
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Sunnyvale, CA
Worked with the ePay team on processing payment Yahoo!'s premium properties and services. Developed a use case for adopting behavior-driven development within the development team. Made front-end UI changes to the customer portal for viewing pending transactions.

### Research Intern @ Bioinformatics at UCSC
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Worked with a UC Santa Cruz mentor on a project in bioinformatics dealing with drug effect prediction.
Learned about molecular biology, self-studied statistics, and wrote 700+ lines of Java code.
Submitted papers to Siemens Competition and Intel Science Talent Search.


## Education
### Master's Degree in Computer Science
Stanford University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences with Mathematics minor
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015

### The Harker School
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kushalranjan
- Website: http://www.kushalranjan.com
- GitHub: http://www.github.com/kranjan94

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Last updated: 2026-03-23