# Simran Virk

> Senior Software Engineer

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

I am a software engineer with 2 years of experience looking for roles in backend and full stack development with a special interest in Static Analysis.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Baton
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Static Analysis for Security

Worked on Mariana Trench (https://mariana-tren.ch/), an open source tool to detect security issues in Android and Java codebases.

### Research Intern,  Robotics Institute @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
I worked with Dr Sycara in the Advanced Agent Robotics Technology Lab on multi-robot path planning algorithms and controls in dynamic and uncertain environments, specifically in the context of non-combatant evacuation. I improved the re-planning time of an existing risk aware path planning algorithm (by a factor of about 2-3 on the cases studied).

### Undergraduate Student Researcher (Twitter Bots) @ Rice University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Houston, Texas Area
I worked on searching for and analyzing areas of twitter bots exerting social influence in election related discussions (with a focus on the midterm elections in 2018). We collected tweets based on relevant hashtags and then marked the bots with a bot detector. I worked (using python) on visualizing the tweet-retweet graph of the collected tweets, analyzing the influence of bots based on their positions in the graph and coming up with ways to improve our predictions of candidate influence.

### Software Engineering Intern @ JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Houston, Texas Area
I worked with my team to build predictive and diagnostic financial models based on available data.
To this end, we also built an automated data querying library to speed up our workflow. I worked on input data processing and the testing as well as tuning of several machine learning paradigms to find one that worked best.

### Undergraduate Student Researcher (Flood Prediction) @ Rice University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Houston, Texas Area
I helped develop a machine learning tool aimed at predicting floods. I gathered relevant geographical data using ArcGIS software and converted it into forms that were able to be fed to the models.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Rice University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29