# Pezanne K.

> Software Engineer at Nextdoor | ex-Asana

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

I’m a software engineer with 2+ years of professional experience and a prior background in industrial design. I enjoy using technology to build things that add value to people's lives. I also simply enjoy the process building things in general. Some side projects I've poured time into are a resume builder application and a Spotify Artists network graph visualizer.

Currently at Asana, I work on building and improving the distributed infrastructure that supports our software, ultimately helping teams across the world collaborate effortlessly.

I have also interned at PROCEPT BioRobotics, where I built an automated CI/CD testing framework that saved valuable engineering hours by running end-to-end test suites on surgical robots.

In my free time, I enjoy travel, photography, food, coffee and admiring the design of cars and watches.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Nextdoor
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer (Infrastructure) @ Asana
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Maintaining and improving the infrastructure for the writes path of the Asana web app and the developer API. 
- Improving distributed workloads framework used by engineers to run business logic on object streams
- Leading migration efforts to allow our infrastructure to be more available and isolate downtime impacts of hardware / code failures
- Enhancing UX of our frameworks for product engineers by paying down technical debt

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Brown University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Design and Analysis of Algorithms (CSCI 1570)

### Software Engineer Intern @ PROCEPT BioRobotics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Redwood City, California, United States
- Engineered a test running framework in .NET C# using WinAppDriver, allowing testing engineers to execute 'no-code' unit tests directly from CSV files on the Aquabeam Robotic System, reducing manual testing time by roughly 14%
- Automated the testing process in Jenkins by configuring a PowerShell script to run Python tests on every code push, enabling rapid and reliable releases

### Full Stack Developer Intern @ SimplifyTech.in
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Tech Stack: MERN – MongoDB, Express, React-Redux, Node.js
- Implemented API routes to allow for secure user authentication and role-based authorization based on secure JWT tokens
- Built Mongoose schemas for MongoDB collections, providing server-side validation and sanitation for corresponding user inputs
- Provided CRUD functionality on all said collections via Mongoose queries with search and pagination parameters where suitable
- Developed action methods and reducers for data retrieval through Axios and state management via Redux
- Built react UI components for several web pages for client e-commence website for tea

### Web Developer Intern @ Polymerupdate
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Mumbai Area, India
Tech Stack: C#, ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET MVC, Razor Pages, ASP.NET Web Forms, JavaScript, MySQL
- Developed RESTful services for API and server-side + client-side functionalities for web application and admin site in MVC Pattern

### Industrial Designer @ Rosanna Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area
Software Stack: SolidWorks, Keyshot, Adobe CC Suite
- Designed tableware products in ceramic and glass with keen attention to aesthetics, user experience and consumer market with CAD (for 3D modeling)

### Product Designer Intern @ Elephant Design Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Worked on a project for a client healthcare company, creating concepts for rehabilitative solutions for stroke patients to regain motor movements and dexterity. 

Worked alongside co-employee on generating CAD models, renders and making a cohesive presentation to pitch the concepts to the client.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Brown University

### Graduate Level Coursework in Computer Science Bridge
University of San Francisco

### Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA in Industrial and Product Design
Rhode Island School of Design

### High School in International Baccalaureate Diploma
B. D Somani International School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11