Saba Imran
Founder at Khoj
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaba Imran is a founder and software engineer based in San Francisco with five years of experience building high-impact tech across AI, healthcare, and finance. They launched openpaper.ai and contribute to khoj, a self-hosted “AI second brain,” where they’ve driven backend reliability, improved image prompt generation, and added magic-link auth and automation email rendering. Prior roles at Microsoft and Two Sigma honed their ability to scale data pipelines and product-facing AI features to millions of users, while work at Probably Genetic involved PHI-aware ML pipelines for rare disease diagnostics. Saba blends full-stack execution with a clear social mission—focusing on education, policy, sustainability, health, and human-centered AI—and prefers building practical tools that meaningfully help people. An engineer who “likes building things,” they combine startup grit with production experience on large-scale systems.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at EPFLComputer Science Computer Science, Computer Science Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Arabic, Latin, Spanish, Urdu, English
Stackoverflow
201reputation
14kreached
4answers
6questions
Github Skills (16)
back-end-development10
python10
backend10
django10
integrations9
emailjs9
rest-api9
e-mail9
google-play6
android-gradle-plugin6
android-architecture-components6
android-fragments6
android6
google-play-services6
fragmentmanager6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
khoj-ai/khoj
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 499 reviews, 87 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Saba primarily focused on the backend aspects of the project, handling scenarios where conversations did not exist. Their contributions include implementing improved image prompt generation using a summarizer model and disabling rate limiting when billing is not enabled. The user also addressed UI bugs and incorporated improvements to the automation and email functionalities, specifically image rendering in automation emails. They made general improvements to the project by adding support for magic link email sign-in.
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khoj-ai/openpaper
Mar 2025 - Jul 2026
Open Paper is a workbench for managing your research library. Read, annotate, and understand your papers all in one place. Use an AI assistant to conduct your literature review.
Contributions:2 reviews, 26 PRs, 694 pushes in 1 year 4 months
aiai-assistantai-pdf-readercopilotpdf-ai
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